Her career includes a 12-year run at the web link, and a memoir published in 2022.
But behind her accomplishments is a tragic loss that helped shape her life into what it is today.
“One of them is dead and we don’t know which one.”
“On the one hand, yes, her son has been spared,” Asher toldNPRin 2022.
Her mom’s plan didn’t only include grade school however.
Obiajulu had her eyes on a bigger prize.
What can I do to make that happen?"
The answer was a heavily restricted TV schedule.
This was to last for 18 months.
But not only was everyday TV off the table, so was music and telephone.
Asher was left with nothing but her studies, and the hopes of making it to Oxford.
Those hopes were realized, and Asher graduated from Oxford with a degree in Spanish and French in 2005.
She later went to Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
