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About Naomi:

The challenges of growing up black and female in apartheid South Africa have been the foundation of Naomi’s life as an activist for human rights.  Those experiences taught her that our whole human family loses when we accept situations of oppression, and how the teaching and preaching hate and division injure us all.   In her speeches she blends this passion for human dignity with humor and personal stories.

Ms Tutu is the third child of Archbishop Desmond and Nomalizo Leah Tutu.  She was born in South Africa and had the opportunity to live in many communities and countries.   She was educated in Swaziland, the US and England, and has divided her adult life between South Africa and the US.   Growing up the ‘daughter of …’ has offered Naomi Tutu many opportunities and challenges in her life.  Most important of these has been the challenge to follow her own path and role in building a better world.  She has taken up the challenge and channeled the opportunities that she has been given to raise her voice as a champion for the dignity of all.