Omar Wasow

Omar Tomas Wasow (born 1970 in Nairobi, Kenya) is an internet analyst who appears frequently on radio and television. Wasow tutored Oprah Winfrey in her first exploration of the Net in the 12-part series Oprah Goes Online. He is co-founder and strategic advisor for the social networking website BlackPlanet.

Wasow's father has German Jewish heritage, and his mother is African-American.^{[citation needed]}

In 1995, Wasow was proclaimed by Newsweek as one of the "fifty most influential people to watch in cyberspace." Around 1999 or 2000, Wasow introduced Oprah Winfrey to electronic mail in a series of 12 appearances on her television show. In 2003, Wasow appeared in an Apple, Inc advertisement discussing their latest operating system at the time Mac OS X Panther. In 2010 Wasow appeared as a guest on Stephen Colbert's show as a guest to explain cyberwar.

Wasow is currently working on his doctorate at Harvard University in African-American Studies and political science. In a 2009 interview with Brian Lamb, Wasow is scheduled to receive his doctorate in spring 2012 and assume the position of Assistant Professor at Princeton in fall 2012.

Wasow is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York City, where he was President of the Student Union. He then graduated from Stanford University in California with a BA degree in Race and Ethnic Relations.

Further reading

• Browning, Lynnley (2001-05-13). "Silicon Alley's Philosopher-Prince". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9501E1D8113BF930A25756C0A9679C8B63&n=Top/News/Business/Companies/Google%20Inc.. 
• "Omar Wasow". People 54 (20): 100. 2000-11-13. 
• "The Net 50". Newsweek 126/127 (26/1): 42–46. 1995-12-25. 

External links

• Omarwasow.com - official website