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Dayo Olopade is a Nigerian-American journalist based in Washington and Nairobi. As a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation, she researched the impact of community, creativity and disruptive technologies in emerging markets, with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa.  Her forthcoming book, The Bright Continent, explores and explains how African innovation and entrepreneurship hold lessons for advanced economies, and are forcing a reorganization of the global development paradigm.

She has written widely on American and international politics, health, education, immigration, human rights, women's rights and development policy. She began her career at The New Republic, where she covered the 2008 presidential primaries and general election. She covered the first year of Barack Obama’s presidency as Washington correspondent for The Root. She currently reports for The Daily Beast and makes occasional appearances on television and radio. She has been a United Nations Foundation Journalism Fellow. Her work has also appeared in print and online at The American Prospect, The Nation, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Democracy, Foreign Policy and The Washington Post. 

Born and raised in Chicago, Dayo holds degrees in Literature and in African Studies from Yale University.