Yvonne Seon is an American professor, university administrator, and Unitarian Universalist minister.
13 Facts About Yvonne Seon
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Yvonne Seon specializes in African studies, African American studies, and government administration.
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Yvonne Seon was an administrative officer in the government of Patrice Lumumba in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and worked in the US federal government.
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Yvonne Seon then worked as a university administrator and founded a Black Studies Center at Wright State University, and helped to design one of the first doctoral programs in Black Studies in the United States.
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In 1981 Seon became the first African American woman to be ordained as a Unitarian Universalist minister.
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Yvonne Seon then received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to attend American University, where she studied American government, political science, and French, earning a master's degree.
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Yvonne Seon met an assistant of Patrice Lumumba at a reception in Washington, DC, shortly after Lumumba's 1960 election as prime minister of the newly independent Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Yvonne Seon accepted the position and moved to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where she lived for two years, from 1961 to 1963.
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Yvonne Seon left this position in 1971 to become the founding director of the Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center at Wright State University.
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From 1979 to 1981, Yvonne Seon studied divinity at Howard University.
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Yvonne Seon was ordained as a minister in the Unitarian Universalist Church in 1981.
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Yvonne Seon retired from Prince George's Community College in 2006, and returned to the Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center at Wright State University, where she was first Distinguished Visiting Director and then became fulltime director for 2 years.
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Yvonne Seon has three children, one of whom is comedian Dave Chappelle.