Yvonne V. Delk (born 1939) is a leader within the United Church of Christ (UCC), a Christian educator and social justice advocate.

In Norfolk, Delk's family experienced the impacts of Jim Crow laws, threats of violence, redlining, and other forms of anti-Black racism.

Although her father worked on the maintenance staff at Norfolk State College, he also took on additional jobs, including woodcutter, grave digger, and shipyard worker, in order to provide for the family.

[6] Yvonne's religious education started at home and at church, but she also attended a summer camp sponsored by the Convention of the South at Franklinton Center at Bricks in Whitakers, North Carolina.

At Franklinton and in her home church, Delk met additional mentors who encouraged her to pursue training in Christian education.

While studying at Andover, Delk joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's Eastern Shores campaign in the Cambridge Civil Rights movement.

Delk then moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where she worked as a parish minister at the First Reformed Church of the UCC, a predominately white congregation that sought to integrate as the inner city neighborhood changed.

[6] Following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and related unrest in the city, Mayor Eugene P. Ruehlmann appointed Delk to a commission to focus on the economic and racial inequities in Cincinnati.

It was through these travels that Delk met and worked with Jeremiah Wright and Barbara Jean Allen at Trinity Church UCC in Chicago.

Delk joined with the MRSJ and James Foreman in support of a Black Manifesto that called for increased influence over the direction of the denomination's Interchurch Office in New York City.

Although her participation in the protest, resulted in missing her formal introduction to the Synod members, her activism drew the attention of other church leaders.

For example, the incoming Synod president, Robert V. Moss Jr., selected Delk to deliver the charge for the denomination's social justice mission.

In this role, Delk emphasized that Christian educators should seek to help Black children to see themselves as liberated, full human beings and not as objects of oppression.

[6] Although newly ordained and still completing graduate studies, Delk's reputation in the UCC resulted in the opportunity to provide the charge for the incoming president (1977) of the denomination, Avery D. Post.

[6] After retiring from the Community Renewal Society, Delk founded the Center for African American Theological studies and taught classes affiliated with the Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education in Chicago.

[6] Delk contributed to many programs that focused on ecumenism, racial justice, anti-poverty, and the full inclusion of marginalized persons in religious life.