Dr. Uhuru Hotep

Dr. Uhuru Hotep is a nationally-recognized authority on Black student achievement and Black leadership development. He is a co-founder of Duquesne University’s Project for Academic Coaching through Tutoring (PACT) and coordinator of the African Manhood/Womanhood Development Program at Holy Rosary Elementary/Middle School in Pittsburgh, PA. With the aid of grants from the Alkebulan Foundation, Dr. 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 conducts three nationally-acclaimed seminars: “75 Ways to Raise the Intelligence of Black Children and Teens”, “Preparing African Youth for 21st Century Leadership and Service” and “Kilombo Reconstruction: Building Sovereign African Villages in Modern-Day America, Part I-III.” In addition, he is the co-editor of the best-selling book 72 Concepts to Liberate the African Mind.
Over the past decade, Dr. Hotep, who serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Pan African Studies, has lectured on African American affairs in Japan, Jamaica, Haiti, Canada, Virgin Islands, and the United Kingdom. As a Fulbright Fellowship recipient, he studied in Ghana, West Africa where he researched the trans-Atlantic slave trade and Akan culture.
Dr. 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 both the Michael P. Weber Learning Skills Center and 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.