[5][7] Her dad was a lawyer, and when Carroll was four years old, her family moved to Nigeria for her father's job.
[7] After completing college, she worked as a research assistant at the Federal Reserve and acted in small theaters in the evening.
[1][6][8] In March 2014, Carroll launched the group Black Women Who Brunch alongside Lena Waithe and Erika L.
[11] In 2018, Carroll joined the crew of All American after the pilot episode, co-producing alongside April Blair, Greg Berlanti, and Sarah Schechter.
[16] In January 2024 she was nominated for the 55th NAACP Awards for Screenwriter and producer, Nkechi Okoro Carroll, stands tall with a nomination in the Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series category for creating NBC’s Found [17] Carroll is married to a high school teacher, Jonathan A.
[7] In April 2000, they both went to see a mutual friend perform at the Soul Cafe in New York City, where fellow University of Pennsylvania alumnus John Legend was the opener.
[7] She was in the World Trade Center Annex when the planes hit the towers on September 11, 2001, and had to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge.