2023 CDF Proctor Institute Leadership

The Rev. Canon Nontombi Naomi Tutu, is Missioner for Racial and Economic Equity at All Souls Cathedral in Asheville, NC. Naomi came late to the ordained ministry, having been ordained in 2017 in the Diocese of Tennessee. Her professional experience ranges from being a development consultant in West Africa, to being program coordinator for programs on Race and Gender and Gender-based Violence in Education at the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town. In addition, Rev. Tutu has taught at the University of Hartford, University of Connecticut and Brevard College in North Carolina. She served as Program Coordinator for the historic Race Relations Institute at Fisk University. After leaving the Race Relations Institute Rev Tutu established Nozizwe Consulting. Through Nozizwe Consulting she also led Truth and Reconciliation workshops and organized specialized partnership trips to South Africa for churches, schools, and women?s groups. Naomi has three grown children.