Jelani Cobb

American writer, author, educator, and dean of the Columbia Journalism School (as of 1 August 2022) Before joining Columbia University as the Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism in 2016, Cobb was an associate professor of history and director of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut, from 2012 to 2016. Since 2015, he has been a staff writer at The New Yorker. Born: 21 August 1969 in New York City, New York, USA