Pamela Ayo Yetunde



Education

Harvard Divinity School August – December 2018

Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, GA September 2011 – May 2016

Doctor of Theology, Pastoral Counseling

Holy Names University, Oakland, CA May 2007 Master of Arts, Culture and Spirituality

Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, IN May 1992

Juris Doctor (Law)

Ball State University, Muncie, IN November 1984

Bachelor of Arts in Journalism/Advertising

Current Positions

Assistant Professor, Pastoral Care and Counseling Fall 2017 – Present

Director, Interreligious Chaplaincy Fall 2017 – Fall 2019

Assistant Vice President, Faculty Community Relations Fall 2019 - Present

United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities

St. Paul, MN

Courses: Introduction to Pastoral Care and Counseling,

Spiritual Formation, Intercultural Resources for

Chaplaincy (M.Div. and D.Min. levels),

Interreligious Resources for Chaplaincy, Couple Counseling,

Buddhist Pastoral Care

Founded and directed the Buddhist Chaplaincy Certificate

Program and managed the program manager

Created the Interreligious Chaplaincy D.Min. curriculum

Led the Theology of Prince project

Guest Faculty March 2019 - present

Upaya Zen Center Chaplaincy Program

Past Teaching Positions

Visiting Scholar-in-Residence Fall 2016

University of the West

Rosemead, CA

Courses: Women in Buddhism, Spiritual Formation (for Buddhist chaplains),

Buddhist Issues and Frameworks (for Doctor of Buddhist Ministry students)

Guest Co-Lecturer Spring 2016

The Interdenominational Theological Center

Atlanta, GA

Course: Womanist Approaches to Pastoral Care

Guest Lecturer February 2015

University of the West

Rosemead, CA

Course: Abrahamic Texts and Pastoral Theology

Teaching Assistant Fall 2013

Columbia Theological Seminary

Decatur, GA

Course: Introduction to Pastoral Care

Small Group Facilitator Spring 2013

The Interdenominational Theological Center

Atlanta, GA

Course: Introduction to Pastoral Care

Publications

Books

Object Relations, Buddhism, and Relationality in Womanist Practical Theology, Palgrave McMillan, 2018.

Vigil: Spiritual Reflections on Your Money and Sanity, Marabella Books, 2012.

The Inheritance: A Stock-Picking Story, Marabella Books, 2000.

Beyond 40 Acres and Another Pair of Shoes: For Smart Sisters Who Think Too Much and Do Too Little About Their Money, Marabella Books, 1998.

Articles, Chapters, and Book Review

“I Know I’ve Been Changed: Black Womanist Buddhist and Christian Spiritual Formation and Spiritual Care for a Homicidal White Male Buddhist,” Navigating Religious Difference in Spiritual Care and Counseling: Essays in Honor of Kathleen J. Greider, ed. Jill Snodgrass, Claremont Press, 2019.

“Noble Black Manhood: A New Rite of Passage,” Lion’s Roar, May, 2019.

“When One Religion Isn’t Enough: The Lives of Spiritually Fluid People,” book review, Journal of Pastoral Theology, April 25, 2019.

“Audre Lorde’s Hopelessness and Hopefulness: Cultivating a Womanist Nondualism for Psycho-Spiritual Wholeness,” Feminist Theology, January 2019.

“Prince: A Spiritual Bioarchetypography of Nondualism and Dialectical Psycho-Spiritual Healing, Part I,” Journal of Theology & Culture, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, 2018.

“Buddhist Non-self as Relational Interdependence: An NTU-Inspired African American Lesbian Interpretation?” Buddhist-Christian Studies, Volume 38, University of Hawai’i Press, 2018, 343.

“Dharma as Civil Rights and Community Transformation—Atlanta Style,” Still in the City, ed. Angela Dews, Skyhorse Publishing, 2018.

“Black Lesbians to the Rescue! A Brief Correction with Implications for Womanist Christian Theology and Womanist Buddhology,” Religions, Vol. 8, Issue 9, 2017,175.

“From StrongBlack Woman to Remarkably Relationally Resilient Woman: Black Christian Women and Black Buddhist Lesbians in Dialogue,” Buddhist-Christian Studies, Volume 37, 2017, University of Hawai’i Press, 239.

“Buddhists Helping Buddhists,” Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly, Summer 2017.

“What About the Cost of Retreats?” Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly, Winter, 2016.

“Buddhism in the Age of #Black Lives Matter,” Lion’s Roar, Spring, 2016.

Electronic Magazine

“Buddhist Nun Ayya Khema,” American Buddhist Women, Issue No. 18, Winter, 2019.

“Being the Change You Want to See: Self and No Self in Buddhist Spiritual Care,” American Buddhist Women, Issue No. 16, Winter 2018.

“Black Snakes Shed Their Blood Hell Skins: University of the West and the Ground of Women’s Spirituality,” American Buddhist Women, Issue No. 12, Fall 2016.

Blog

Blog essays on (State of Formation is an offshoot of the Journal of Interreligious Studies (JIRS), a program of the Betty Ann Greenbaum Miller Center for Interreligious Learning & Leadership at Hebrew College) including:

“Religious Freedom to Discriminate: Unraveling Archetypes, Anachronism, and Apartheid for Our Collective Survival, Part V,” October 6, 2016.

“Religious Freedom to Discriminate: Unraveling Archetypes, Anachronism, and Apartheid for Our Collective Survival, Part IV,” August 24, 2016.

“Religious Freedom to Discriminate: Unraveling Archetypes, Anachronism, and Apartheid for Our Collective Survival, Part III,” August 17, 2016.

“Religious Freedom to Discriminate: Unraveling Archetypes, Anachronism, and Apartheid for Our Collective Survival, Part II,” July21, 2016.

“Religious Freedom to Discriminate: Unraveling Archetypes, Anachronism, and Apartheid for Our Collective Survival,” July 11, 2016.

“The Ethics of Class and Race in Leadership for a Pluralistic Society,” June 22, 2016.

“The Benefits of Meditation for Breaking Attachment to Unmindful Routines,” June 13, 2016.

“Observing the Masters of Interfaith Engagement,” April 22, 2016.

“Celebrating Womanist Scholarship for Women’s History Month,” March 22, 2016.

“Co-Authoring for Life and Resistance,” March 17, 2016.

“Belief vs. Knowledge in Tax Reform,” November 16, 2015.

“Reflections on Intersections of Identity with African-American Buddhist Lesbians,” October 29, 2015.

“Interreligious and Interethic Dialogue in Clinical Pastoral Education,” October 8, 2015.

Website

– a website on pastoral care from Buddhist perspectives

Upcoming Publications

Buddhist-Christian Dialogue, U.S. Religious Freedom Law, and Womanist Public Theology for Transgender Spiritual Care, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us About Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom, an anthology co-edited with Cheryl A. Giles, under review with Shambhala Publications, 2021.

Dissertation

“A New Spelling of Our Names: An Exploration of the Psycho-Spiritual Experiences of African-American Buddhist Lesbians” (defended January 22, 2016).

Presentations

“Buddhist Ethics Committees: Procedures for Preventing and Addressing Teacher-Student Sexual Relations,” American Academy of Religion, November, 2019.

“Intersectional Spiritual Care: Chaplaincy Across Lines of Difference,” American Academy of Religion, November 2019, respondent.

“Scholarly Workers in Public Spaces: The Long Road Toward De-Colonizing Psychology, Culture and Religion,” American Academy of Religion, November 2019, respondent.

“We Need a New Breed, Leaders, Stand Up, Organize: The Theology of Prince for Creative Resistance,” BuildPeace, November 2019.

“Think Like a Lawyer, Act Like a Chaplain,” Association for Professional Chaplains, June 19, 2019.

“Creating Pastoral Theologians for Responsible Religious Freedom,” Society for Pastoral Theology’s Pre-Conference for Scholars and Practitioners of Color, June 13, 2019.

“Religious Anthropology, Psychology, Law, and Ethics: Bridging the Gaps for Enlightened Living,” Husan Chuang University’s (Taiwan) 2nd International Conference on Religious Culture & Gender Ethics: A Pursuit of Gender Justice and Diversity, May 25, 2019.

“Making Interreligious Chaplaincy Education Meaningfully Inclusive,” Parliament of the World’s Religions, November, 2018.

“The Gathering,” a conference and presentation of African-descended Buddhist leaders at Union Theological Seminary, October, 2018.

“Prince: A Spiritual Bioarchetypography of Nondualism and Dialectical Psycho-Spiritual Healing, Part I,” Society for Pastoral Theology, June, 2018.

“Prince: A Spiritual Bioarchetypography of Nondualism and Dialectical Psycho-Spiritual Healing, Part I,” Prince from Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, April, 2018.

“Theologies of the "Impure": A Womanist Response to the Religious Freedom to Discriminate,” American Academy of Religion Womanist Theology Panel, November, 2017.

“Audre Lorde’s Hope in the Midst of Suffering, Extremism, and Planetary Crisis: Cultivating a Womanist Nondualism for Psychological Survival and Engagement,” The 3rd Biennial Consultation of African & African Diasporan Women in Religion and Theology, July, 2016.

“Audre Lorde’s Hope in the Midst of Suffering, Extremism, and Planetary Crisis: Cultivating a Womanist Nondualism for Psychological Survival and Engagement,” Society for Pastoral Theology 2016 Conference, Workshop Presenter, 2016.

“Audre Lorde’s Earliest Poems,” Toni Cade Bambara Scholar-Activism Conference-Spelman College, “The Wild Archives: Encounters with Toni Cade Bambara and Other Lives That Matter,” Panelist, 2016.

“The Psycho-Spiritual Experiences of African-American Buddhist Lesbians,” Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion, Presenter, 2016.

American Psychosocial Oncology Society, “Working Through Religious Resistance to Cancer Treatment,” Presenter and Poster, 2016.

Parliament of the World’s Religions, “Uncovering a Bodhisattva: The Spiritual Journey of Audre Lorde” and “Transforming Greed through Spiritual Practice,” Presenter, 2015.

“The Client Who Changed Me the Most, Theologically,” American Association of Pastoral Counselors Southeast Regional Conference, Presenter, 2015.

“Voices of Challenge and Wisdom: Gay and Lesbian Perspective on Faith, Spirituality and Embodied Grace,” Parliament of the World’s Religions, Panelist, 2009.

Crowd-Funded Research Project

The Audre Lorde Journals Project January-March, 2016

Pastoral Care and Counseling Clinical Experiences

Skyland Trail, Atlanta, GA. March, 2013 – March, 2015

Chaplain and Pastoral Counselor

Responsible for leading mindfulness, lovingkindness, and compassion meditation groups. Created a set of compassion cards and a meditation CD for clients. Facilitate psychoeducational groups. Provide individual counseling for people with a variety of mental and emotional challenges and illnesses. Plan and facilitate spirituality retreats. Plan and lead community-wide worship services and other events. Support staff and client spiritual growth.

Pastoral Counseling Private Practice, St. Paul, MN January 2013-Present

Responsible for individual pastoral counseling.

Care and Counseling Center of Georgia, Decatur, GA September 2009-December 2012

Advanced Resident Counselor

Responsible for providing pastoral counseling and psychotherapy to patients with a variety of illnesses including depression and anxiety. Conducted spiritual assessments and utilized the DSM-IV for psychiatric assessments and treatment plans. Participated in group processes.

Holy Names University, Oakland, CA. October 2007 – May 2008

Volunteer Chaplain

Provided spiritual support for college students.

Pathways Home Care and Hospice, Oakland, CA June to October 2006

Spiritual Care Counselor (Chaplain)

Provided spiritual support for patients and their family and friends.

Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Berkeley, CA August 2005 to May 2006

Chaplain Resident

Provided spiritual support for patients on various units. Participated in group processes.

Mercy Center, Burlingame, CA Summer 2005

Student and Intern

Attended the four-week residential Art of Spiritual Direction Internship (in Christian/Catholic tradition).

Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA Spring/Summer 2005

Chaplain Volunteer

Provided spiritual care for patients and families, especially in the neo-natal intensive care ward.

Pathways Home Care & Hospice, Oakland, CA Spring/Summer 2005

Family Support Volunteer

Provided on-going visitation to woman with dementia and inability to speak.

Sojourn Chaplaincy/San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA. Spring 2005

Chaplain Intern

Provided spiritual support to patients on various wards.

Professional Affiliations

American Psychological Association

American Academy of Religion

American Association of Pastoral Counselors/Association for Clinical Pastoral Education

Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies

Society for Pastoral Theology

Spirituality in Clinical Practice Journal (Consulting Editor)

Awards

Distinguished Service Award, Class of 1992 1992

Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington

Finalist

Scattergood Foundation Design Challenge 2015

Meditation Retreat Box for women in homeless shelters

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