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Jelani Cobb
Jelani Cobb became the dean of the Columbia Journalism School in 2022. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2015 and is the author of “The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress” and other books.
Jelani Cobb became the dean of the Columbia Journalism School in 2022. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2015 and is the author of “The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress” and other books.