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Ebony Walden
Founder & Principal of Ebony Walden Consulting- Cultivating Workplace Belonging
- Key Elements of Inclusive Leadership
- Operationalizing Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (An Overview)
- Measuring Success - Racial Equity and DEIB Data and Metrics
Ebony Walden is an urban planner, DEI consultant and facilitator with over 15 years of experience working to transform communities. As the founder of Ebony Walden Consulting (EWC), an urban strategy firm based in Richmond, Virginia, she works with community organizations to design and facilitate trainings and processes that explore race, equity and the creation of more just and inclusive communities.
Ebony is the creator and co-editor of the RIchmond Racial Equity Essays, a multimedia project that explores racial equity in Richmond, Virginia. Ebony is also an adjunct professor at Virginia Commonwealth University where she teaches Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the City.
Ebony was a 2019-2020 Encore Public Voices Fellow, where she wrote equity focused op-eds for the Richmond Times-Dispatch and The Hill on Land Use and Affordable Housing. She has also been featured in Next City, The Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond Magazine, Christianity Today and Cville Magazine and conducted workshops at local, national and international events and conferences such as Race Forward’s 2022 Facing Race Conference, SXSW and The Caux Forum in Switzerland.
Ebony holds a bachelor’s in business administration from Georgetown University and a master’s in urban and Environmental Planning from the University of Virginia.