3/5/02

DAUGHTER OF ARCHBISHOP TUTU TO SPEAK AT AUBURN UNIVERSITY

AUBURN -- Naomi Tutu, the daughter of South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, will speak at Auburn University on March 12.

Tutu will speak at 6 p.m., at the AU Hotel and Dixon Conference Center on the subject of "Building Gender Coalitions Across Racial Lines." Prior to her presentation, there will be a reception at 5:30 p.m.

The lecture is part of Women's History Month at Auburn, which is sponsored by AU's Office of Multi-Cultural Affairs.

Tutu founded and chaired from 1985 until 1990 the Tutu Foundation, which helped South African refugees in African countries. She is now program coordinator for the Race Relations Institute at Fisk University, which is charged with focusing on the problem of racism in the global community.

Born in Krugersdorp, South Africa, Tutu holds a bachelor's degree in economics and French from Berea College, in Berea, Ky., and a master's degree in international economic development from the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Economic Development at the University of Kentucky.

She is writing her dissertation for a doctorate from the London School of Economics while teaching in the School of Education at the University of Connecticut at Storrs.

The third daughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his wife Nomalizo, Tutu has served as a consulting associate for Equator Advisory Services Ltd., a private consulting firm in sub-Saharan Africa and carried out consulting work in South Africa looking into educational and professional opportunities for black women.

She has taught courses on development issues and education in Africa at the universities of Hartford and Connecticut and Brevard College in North Carolina, and has also worked at the University of Cape Town where she was a program coordinator at the African Gender Institute, where she was in charge of programs on race and gender and the gender-based violence in education.

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CONTACT: AU¹s Office of Multi-Cultural Affairs, 334/844-4184.