The Rev. Mpho A. Tutu, an Episcopal priest, is the founder
and Executive Director of the Tutu Institute for Prayer and Pilgrimage.
For several years prior to her ordination, Rev. Tutu was Director of the Discovery Program at All Saints
Church, a weekday and summer ministry for children in the downtown Worcester, Massachusetts. She also worked as the Seminarian
Associate at St. Michael's-on-the-Heights Church in Worcester.
Rev. Tutu studied and taught in Grahamstown, South Africa, at the College of the Transfiguration, the Provincial
Episcopal seminary of Southern Africa. While at the College, she joined the Mother's Union, and worked in both Xhosa-
and English-speaking congregations. With a grant from the Episcopal Evangelical Education Society, she initiated pastoral
care ministry for a rape survivors and their families.
Rev. Tutu began her ordained ministry at Historic Christ Church in Alexandria, Virginia. She now serves as Assisting
Priest at Holy Comforter Episcopal Church in Washington, DC.
She is an experienced public speaker and preacher having recently addressed groups and congregations as diverse as
Trinity, Copley Square, Massachusetts, Mother Bethel AME church in Philadelphia, The University of Minnesota at Mankato and
the Women's Club of Richmond.
For five
years, Rev. Tutu was Director of the Bishop Desmond Tutu Southern African Refugee Scholarship Fund of the Phelps Stokes Fund.
That program provided full four-year college scholarships to refugees from South African and Namibia.
The Rev. Mpho Tutu is the chairperson of the board of the Global
AIDS Alliance and a member of the advisory board Reinvest in South Africa (RISA).
Rev. Tutu holds a Master of Divinity Degree from Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge,
MA.
Rev. Tutu is married to Joseph Burris;
they have two daughters, ten year old Nyaniso, and one year old Onalenna.
