Adaora Udoji
| Adaora Udoji | |
|---|---|
| Born | U.S. |
| Education | University of Michigan,University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law |
| Occupation | Adjunct Professor NYU |
| Years active | 1995 – present |
Adaora Udoji is an American journalist. She is currently an adjunct professor at NYU, Interactive Telecommunications Program. She is an advisor to several startups including: Swoonery and Cisse, Ltd. She is mentor for the Op'ed Project and a Global Giving Ambassador. She serves on the board of the Montclair Film Festival and is a member of the advisory board for Women at NBC Universal. Formerly, she was a mentor for WIM, Women Innovate Mobile and The Montclair State University School of the Arts.
Udoji founded The Boshia Group, a network of content and operational strategists, producers and storytellers.
An award-winning journalist, Udoji is a graduate of UCLA School of Law. She is among a small group of journalists who have worked in network and cable news, as well as public radio. She's lived on three continents including Africa, Europe and North America; and holds dual American & Irish citizenship.
Udoji is of Nigerian-Irish American descent. Born to father Godfrey Udoji, former chief engineer for the city of Dearborn, Michigan, and mother Mary, former director of Washtenaw County Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Udoji earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Michigan. After a stint in the communications office at Michigan's Business School and WUOM, the public radio station, she went to the UCLA School of Law. During that time she externed for the Honorable Consuelo B. Marshall, United States Federal Judge, Central District of California, Los Angeles and clerked for the I.R.S.
Udoji expanded into public radio as the co-host of The Takeaway with John Hockenberry and Adaora Udoji in 2008, a nationally syndicated co-production by WNYC, The New York Times, BBC, WGBH-Boston and PRI. She covered the presidential election of Barack Obama, reporting on her fourth presidential campaign and election.
Prior to that on April 25, 2006, she signed with Court TV News as an anchor.
At CNN she served as a New York-based correspondent covering stories including the 2004 presidential election, Katrina, and the West Virginia Sago mine disaster for the network's television and radio outlets. She began her journalism career ABC News, as an off-air reporter working for Cynthia McFadden covering the OJ Simpson criminal trial and other legal stories. She became an associate producer for ABC News covering the presidential election as a member of the Dole/Kemp press corp, the TWA 800 crash, as well as working on documentary about death row. The network named her a foreign correspondent in 2000 where she was based in London reporting international stories covering Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
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