Dr. Ntutela is a socio-cultural anthropologist who researches the institutionalization of difference in the African diaspora – Canada, United States and Anglophone Caribbean societies. She is a graduate of Yale University, City University of New York, and York University (Canada). Her work spans two decades specializing in race and gender hegemony, intersectionality, and agency of self-identified women of African heritage. Her scholarly interests range widely within the rubric of postcolonial perspectives, critical anthropologies, feminisms, cultural diversity and social justice. She is particularly interested in subaltern voices and the socio-cultural relativity of social science research and evaluation methodologies. She brings these interests into the classroom, encouraging students to critically deconstruct Western constructs of knowledge and recognize both the ruptures and continuities within them. While teaching at Saint Mary’s University in Halfax, and at Acadia in Wolfville, Canada, Dr. Ntutela worked as a speech writer for the President of the Canadian Council on the Status of Women in Ottawa. Returning briefly to South Africa in the late 1990s, her work began with serving as senior researcher at the Union Buildings during President Nelson R. Mandela’s administration, conducting research among women parliamentarians and producing an 8-chapter gender policy framework in preparation for the establishment of the Office on the Status of Women in the Presidency. She then led a team of social scientists drafting the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination (PEPUDA) Act (4) of 2000. Thereafter, she served as Executive Director (Department Chair) of the Public Management and Development Program Group and Rotational Acting Dean of the School of Applied Community Sciences at Technikon Southern Africa, until mandatory institutional mergers took place between UNISA, Vista and Technikon Southern Africa. Dr. Ntutela has since taught at Columbia University where she developed and delivered Ubuntu-infused Master’s level coursework targeting Organizational Ombudsman practitioners at the School of Professional Studies. For nineteen years Dr. Ntutela taught undergraduate programs at the City University of New York, NY, and William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey. During the COVID-19 and social justice twin pandemics, she taught contact, hybrid and online, integrating trauma informed pedagogy and Ubuntu instructional practices in synchronous and asynchronous modalities. Currently, Dr. Ntutela conducts workshops, seminars and public speaking endeavors on Ubuntu philosophy in the healthcare industry.