Rachel Dolezal Makes An Unusual Career Change After Struggling To Find A Job

Sometimes a scandal is so bad and/or wild that it inadvertently turns the person behind the scandal into a celebrity. This is the case for Rachel Dolezal, who became a minor celebrity after being exposed for her lies. Some have even placed her in the same league of women like Monica Lewinsky who have been in scandals and come out the other side as a prominent voice. Still, Dolezal's scandal is far worse than Lewinsky's, and the two probably shouldn't be compared.

If you don't know Dolezal's case, it's actually rather simple. Dolezal was an instructor at Eastern Washington University and the branch president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); she was an activist and a popular one at that (via The Guardian). The problem? She led everyone to believe that she was Black American and therefore an authority on the topics for which she was advocating instead of boosting actual African-American voices.

According to The Guardian, this came crashing down when interviewers arrived at her house and questioned her about her identity. Dolezal, who assumed the interviewers were there to talk about racial hate crimes, retreated when the questions began, fleeing off-camera. Her fake identity had been uprooted.

Now, Dolezal struggles to find work, especially in academia, and she's turned to a new outlet for income.