Woman Formerly Known as Rachel Dolezal Speaks Out After Losing Job Over OnlyFans Account: ‘Keep on Living’

Nkechi Diallo shared a smiling selfie on Friday, days after news broke that she had been fired by a Arizona school district

• Nkechi Diallo, formerly known as Rachel Dolezal, is speaking out after losing her teaching job in Arizona

• “Her posts are contrary to our district's ‘Use of Social Media by District Employees’ policy and our staff ethics policy," Julie Farbarik, a spokeswoman for the Catalina Foothills Unified School District #16, said in a statement to PEOPLE Wednesday

• Diallo sparked controversy in 2015 for identifying as Black despite having two White parents

Nkechi Diallo, formerly known as Rachel Dolezal, is speaking out days after news broke that she'd been fired by an Arizona school district after administrators learned she had an OnlyFans account.

On Friday morning, the former NAACP official — who sparked controversy in 2015 for identifying as Black despite having two White parents — shared a smiling selfie on her Instagram Story.

“Keep on Living,” Diallo, 46, wrote alongside the photo.

In a separate post, Diallo directed her followers to her website where she sells her art, which includes paintings, sculptures and mixed-media works.

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“People asked how they can support,” she wrote. “Show some love with an order from my art website.”

Diallo’s artwork has also been the subject of controversy. In 2015, HuffPost and Artnet — along with thousands of Twitter users — accused her of plagiarism after a side-by-side depiction of J.M.W. Turner’s landmark 1840 painting The Slave Ship and Dolezal’s uncredited-to-Turner version The Shape of Our Kind shared eerie similarities.

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On Tuesday, NBC affiliate KVOA broke news that Diallo was an employee at the Catalina Foothills School District in Tucson and that she was linked to an OnlyFans account. The outlet noted that explicit images appearing to be Diallo had also been shared on Reddit.

Julie Farbarik, a spokeswoman for the Catalina Foothills Unified School District #16, confirmed to PEOPLE in a statement on Wednesday that Diallo no longer worked for them.

“We only learned of Ms. Nkechi Diallo's OnlyFans social media posts yesterday afternoon,” Farbarik said. “Her posts are contrary to our district's ‘Use of Social Media by District Employees’ policy and our staff ethics policy. She is no longer employed by the Catalina Foothills School District.”

Diallo’s Instagram account includes several mentions of her OnlyFans page, where she posts “creative content and [gives] fans a more intimate look into my life” for a $9.99 per month subscription fee. The link to the OnlyFans account includes the name Rachel Dolezal.

She was hired as an after-school instructor in Aug. 2023, per the Arizona Daily Star, which reported that the contract was set to run through May 24, 2024.

Farbarik told the outlet that Diallo was a part-time after-school extended-day instructor for the Community Schools Program and that she worked with students in the K-5 grade levels. "She was also a substitute with Educational Services Inc., our contracted substitute provider," Farbarik said.

In November 2015, Diallo admitted on The Real that she was “biologically born White to White parents, but I identify as Black” and that she began identifying herself as Black in 2006. She also published a memoir, In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black & White World.

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Diallo legally changed her name in 2017. Reuters reported she changed her name to Nkechi Amare Diallo, citing court records.

During an appearance on Today, she said that she "felt like I needed to change my legal name in order to be seen for my qualifications and experience rather than just seen for the tabloid publicity that I got in 2015."

She added, “When applying for a job, people were just seeing ‘Rachel Dolezal’ and not paying attention to the wide-ranging experience and qualifications that I do have.”

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