Rev. Mpho Tutu to Speak at CSE on Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Posted on July 22, 2010

Rev. Mpho Tutu, author of the recently published book, Made for Goodness, will speak in the Dolan Performance Hall, Annunciation Center, at the College of Saint Elizabeth, 2 Convent Road, Morristown, N.J., on September 7, 2010, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are priced at $25. For more information about this event, visit the CSE website at www.cse.edu or call 973-290-4378 or email at events@cse.edu.

Rev. Tutu is the daughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu with whom she wrote the book.

An Episcopal priest and an experienced preacher, teacher, and retreat facilitator, Rev. Tutu, is the founder and executive director of the Tutu Institute for Prayer & Pilgrimage, located in Alexandria, Va. She has run ministries for children in downtown Worcester, Mass.; for rape survivors in Grahamstown, South Africa; and for refugees from South Africa and Namibia at Phelps Stokes, an organization located in New York City that connects emerging leaders and organizations in Africa and the Americas with resources to help them advance social and economic development.

Rev. Tutu earned her Master of Divinity degree from Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass., and began her ordained ministry at historic Christ Church in Alexandria, Va. Rev. Tutu is the Chairperson Emerita of the Board of the Global AIDS Alliance, the Chairperson of the Board of Advisors of the 911 Unity Walk, and a trustee of Angola University.

As a special feature to this year’s ceremonial event, members of the Piragramac Dance Company will perform a series of traditional dance routines.

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