Ebonie is Co-Executive Director Emeritus and Strategic Advisor of the Lower Eastside Girls Club of New York. In her previous roles overseeing government relations and special initiatives, Ebonie created New Girl City, Girls Club’s citywide civic leadership initiative funded by the New York City Council, and spearheaded Girls Club’s Center for Wellbeing and Happiness expansion initiative, and a Girls Club’s replication in Brownsville, Brooklyn. She had previously served as a 2012-13 New York City Urban Fellow and Associate Director at the NYC Mayor’s Office of Housing Recovery Operations. She earned a B.A. in public policy studies at Duke University, where she received the University Distinguished Leadership and Service Award in 2012. Ebonie’s background and passion lies at the intersection of hyperlocal agency, equity, social justice and public policy. In her spare time, she sings with the Resistance Revival Chorus, works on equity and policy efforts in New York City and State and sits on numerous boards and councils in policy and community-based advocacy. She has been featured in campaigns, panels and articles from Essence.com, Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy journal, Kate Spade New York, Ellevate, Duke’s Kenan Institute for Ethics, ShesTheFirst.org and others and has received distinguished honors from the New York State Assembly, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, New York Knicks, and others. A military brat from Dallas, Texas, Ebonie is a ten-year resident of Harlem, New York City.