The Arizona-based educator formerly known as Rachel Dolezal has been fired from her job in a local school district due to content posted on her OnlyFans page.
Rachel Dolezal legally changed her name to Nkechi Diallo in 2016
Dolezal, who legally changed her name to Nkechi Diallo in 2016, has been teaching at an Arizona elementary school since August 2023, according to News4 Tucson.
According to Julie Farbarik, the district’s director of alumni and community relations, she was fired this week after her OnlyFans account was discovered to be “contrary to our district’s Use of Social Media by District Employees policy and our staff ethics policy”. The account was linked to Diallo’s public Instagram profile.
“We only learned of Ms Nkechi Diallo’s OnlyFans social media posts yesterday afternoon,” she said, according to News4Tucson. “She is no longer employed by the Catalina Foothills school district.”
She identified as a Black woman for years
Diallo is best known for the controversy surrounding her racial identity; she identified as a black woman for years and even led the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) before her parents publicly revealed her whiteness in 2015.
Following the controversy, Diallo lost her job teaching African studies at Eastern Washington University and started an account on OnlyFans in 2021 after being unable to find work. She has made 600 posts in the intervening years, sharing hundreds of paid adult videos and photos. Diallo was not immediately available for comment.
Diallo’s is not the first case in which an educator was fired or resigned because of OnlyFans content. In 2023, a Missouri teacher was suspended and then resigned after her Facebook account was discovered and shared. Some argue that the presence of teachers on OnlyFans highlights the financial pressures that those in education face, with the average school teacher earning $66,745 per year and 40% of all education professionals earning less than $25,000 annually.
During the pandemic, OnlyFans, a subscription-based adult content site, saw its global creator base grow from 1 million in 2020 to 3 million in 2023. The average OnlyFans creator earns only $151 per month, but some of the top accounts earn up to $5.4 million annually.
