BUILDING COMMUNITY IN A GLOBAL SOCIETY:
the Value of Diversity, Leadership and the Economy
Nontombi Naomi Tutu
The City Club is thrilled to invite you to hear special guest Naomi Tutu present Building Community in a Global Society: the Value of Diversity, Leadership and the Economy. Dr. Tutu will share lessons learned from the South African experience in creating community unity.
This City Club Forum will begin at 11:30 with check-in starting at 11:15. The Forum will conclude at 1:00 p.m.
Preregistration is required by 5:00 p.m. Monday, September 15, 2008.
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Speaker Information
Tutu is associate director of the Office of International Programs at Tennessee State University, founder of the Tutu Foundation, daughter of South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and author of Words of Desmond Tutu and I Don’t Think of You as Black: Honest Conversations on Race.
Born in South Africa during apartheid, Nontombi Naomi Tutu is an internationally recognized speaker and consultant on gender, race and international relations. As chairperson of the Tutu Foundation from 1985 until 1990, she helped South African refugees in African countries get scholarships to learn skills that would make them self-supporting while in exile, as well as to prepare them for constructive roles in the free South Africa.
Tutu has been a consultant in sub-Saharan Africa and in South Africa with a focus on educational and professional opportunities for black women. Since then, she has taught courses on development, gender, and education in Africa, at the Universities of Hartford and Connecticut and Brevard College in North Carolina. Tutu also worked at the University of Cape Town at the African Gender Institute, in charge of programs on race and gender and gender-based violence in education.
Tutu holds a BA in Economics and French from Kentucky’s Berea College, and an MA in International Economic Development from the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Economic Development at the University of Kentucky. She was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Universal Orthodox College of Ogun State, Nigeria, in 1985. She has received numerous awards and honors from different organizations such as the California State Legislature, the Kentucky State Branches of the NAACP, the Boston City Council, Outstanding Youth Women of America, Who’s Who of Africans in America, and Dollars and Sense magazine.