Ngozi Cole is a writer and journalist covering social issues. She has received journalism fellowships from the Young Feminist Fund, the Journalism & Women Symposium, and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Her reporting on Black maternal health won an award from the Ohio Associated Press Media Editors.

Born and raised in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Ngozi graduated with honors from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and the College of Wooster. Before pursuing a career in journalism, she worked in international development.

Ngozi is the founder and editor of Poda-Poda Stories, a Sierra Leonean literary journal. Her fiction and poetry have been published in Brittle Paper and Afreada.