Ngozi Cole is a writer and journalist covering social issues. She has reported for outlets such as Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and The New Humanitarian, and her stories have aired on public radio in Ohio and California.

Her reporting on Black maternal mortality won an Ohio Associated Press Media Editors Award, and she has received journalism fellowships from The Young Feminist Fund and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Born and raised in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Ngozi graduated with honors from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the College of Wooster. Before pursuing a career in journalism full-time, she worked in the non-profit sector.

Ngozi is the founder and editor of Poda-Poda Stories, a Sierra Leonean literary journal. Her fiction and poetry have been published in Brittle Paper and Afreada.