Pamela Ayo Yetunde

Pamela Ayo Yetunde (born 1961) is an American Buddhist pastoral counselor, hospice worker, writer and educator. She is the author of Casting Indra's Nett: Fostering Spiritual Kinship and Community and Object Relations, Buddhism, and Relationality in Womanist Practical Theology (2018) and co-editor of Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom (2020).

Biography Yetunde was born in 1961 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. She attended the United Methodist Church while growing up. Her father died of cardiac arrest when she was 8 years old, which made her fearful of death. She attended the LGBTQ-affirming Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in California.

In 2020, Yetunde co-founded the Center of the Heart wellness practice. She currently works as an Assistant Professor of Pastoral and Spiritual Care at United Theological Seminary in Ohio. "Audre Lorde's Hopelessness and Hopefulness: Cultivating a Womanist Nondualism for Psycho-Spiritual Wholeness". Feminist Theology, 27(2), 2019. Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom (2020), co-edited with Cheryl A. Giles "Buddhism in the Age of #Black Lives Matter." Lion's Roar (2020) Casting Indra's Nett: Fostering Spiritual Kinship and Community (2023) Dearly Beloved: Prince, Spirituality, and This Thing Called Life (2025)