Pamela Ayo Yetunde
Pamela Ayo Yetunde
Dr. Pamela Ayo Yetunde is assistant professor of pastoral and spiritual care and counseling and director of United's Interreligious Chaplaincy program. She is the author of Object Relations, Buddhism, and Relationality in Womanist Practical Theology and her book on Buddhist-Christian dialogue, religious freedom law and transgender spiritual care will be published this year. Ayo led United's Theology of Prince project, and has researched the spirituality in Prince's music and Audre Lorde's poetry. Her articles appear in Buddhadharma, Lion's Roar, Journal of Buddhist-Christian Studies, Religions and Feminist Theology. She is an interfaith Buddhist practitioner.
Pamela Ayo Yetunde, J.D., M.A., Th.D., was the Frederick P. Lenz Foundation Visiting Scholar-in-Residence at University of the West, Fall, 2016. Ayo earned her Doctor of Theology in Pastoral Counseling degree from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA. She earned her M.A. in Culture and Spirituality from Holy Names University in Oakland, CA and her law degree from Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington. Ayo is a pastoral counselor in private practice, and has also worked in spiritual care in hospital, hospice, and mental health care settings. She is a Community Dharma Leader certified by Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, CA.