Toluse Olorunnipa

The Washington Post’s Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa were key reporters on the newspaper’s award-winning series George Floyd’s America and contributors to the well-received Post Reports podcast episode on Floyd’s life.Olorunnipa grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and is the son of immigrants from a small village in central Nigeria. He has covered national politics since 2015, reporting from five continents and more than 20 countries as part of the presidential press pool. Olorunnipa’s reporting has received awards and recognition from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, the National Press Foundation, the Diverse Future Initiative and others. He earned master’s and bachelor’s degrees in sociology from Stanford University, where he conducted research on social movements.