Dr. Uhuru Hotep

Founder/Director

Center for Accelerated Learning/

   Kwame Ture Leadership Institute
Pittsburgh, PA

 

 

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r. Uhuru Hotep is a nationally-recognized authority on organizing and managing student  retention and achievement programs, service learning projects, and leadership training and development initiatives. He is a co-founder of Duquesne University’s Project for Academic Coaching through Tutoring (PACT), a community-focused education, training, and research project that oversees service learning, academic enrichment, and career exploration programs that link college students as tutors and mentors to at-risk urban youth. He is also the coordinator of the African Manhood/Womanhood Development Program at Holy Rosary Elementary School in Pittsburgh, PA.  With the aid of grants from the Al-kebulan Foundation, Hotep created the Johari Sita: The Six Jewels of African Centered Leadership, which is the nation’s first African centered leadership-followership training program. He also developed two nationally acclaimed seminars: “75 Ways to Raise the Intelligence of Black Children and Teens”and “Preparing African Youth for 21st Century Leadership and Service”.  In addition, he is the co-editor of the best-selling 72 Concepts to Liberate the African Mind.

 

Over the past decade, Dr. Hotep has lectured on African and African American social, educational and cultural issues in Japan, Jamaica, Haiti, Canada, and the United Kingdom.  As a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, he studied in Ghana, West Africa where he researched the trans-Atlantic slave trade and Akan culture. 

 

 

 

 

Institute for Leadership

Pittsburgh, PA
 
Hotep earned his bachelor’s degree in African American studies from the University of Washington and two master’s degrees, one in adult education from the University of the District of Columbia and the other in African American studies from Clark Atlanta University.  His doctorate is in educational leadership.  He currently serves as the associate director of the Robert and Patricia Gussin Spiritan Division of Academic Programs at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA.  He can be reached at hotep@duq.edu or 412.396.5171.