317 HUMAN RIGHTS LEADER NAOMI TUTU TO DISCUSS GENDER AND RACE

Daughter of Nobel Peace Prize Winner Blazes Her Own Trail for Peace and Justice

(MURFREESBORO) – Naomi Tutu, founder and former chair of the Tutu Foundation for Development and Relief in Southern Africa, will speak on “Building Gender Coalitions Across Racial Lines” at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 12, in MTSU’s Keathley University Center Theater.
Tutu, the third daughter of Anglican Archbishop Emeritus and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Desmond Tutu and his wife, Nomalizo, speaks on South African issues to audiences at universities, schools, and churches across the United States.
Since 2003, Tutu has worked as the associate director of the office of International Relations and Programs at Tennessee State University. From 1999-2002, Tutu served as program coordinator for the Race Relations Institute at Fisk University
Her experience also includes a stint as Program Officer and Co-convener of the Gender-based Violence and Education Program at the University of Cape Town from 1997-98. In addition, Tutu has taught courses on development, gender, and education in Africa at the University of Hartford, the University of Connecticut, and Brevard University.
Tutu holds bachelor’s degrees in economics and French from Berea College and a master’s degree in international economic development from the University of Kentucky.
Her awards include citations from the California General Assembly, the Boston City Council, the Kentucky branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Outstanding Youth Women of America, and an honorary doctorate from the Universal Orthodox College of Ogun State in Nigeria.
Tutu’s speech is sponsored by MTSU’s National Women’s History Month (NWHM) Committee, the Black History Month Committee, the June Anderson Women’s Center, and the Distinguished Lecture Fund. This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact the June Anderson Women’s Center at 615-898-2193 or jawc@mtsu.edu.

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ATTENTION, MEDIA: For a color jpeg photo of Naomi Tutu, contact Gina Logue at 615-898-5081 or gklogue@mtsu.edu.