• Training/Facilitating

    Ebony can create course work and facilitate trainings for your agency or institution. As a Community Health Educator she previously facilitated the evidenced-based intervention Future Is Ours, or FIO, which was designed as an HIV prevention group for women who were considered to be at an increased risk to contract the virus. Ebony has also developed her own courses (selected courses created shown below) which have been sought out by agencies across the United States. Her courses typically have two foundational principles of self-awareness and historical context. The courses aim to increase participants’ awareness of themselves and their position in the world. Participants also learn about the historical context for systematic oppression. They receive clear examples tying our history to the present and leave with tools that empower them for change.

  • Advising/Consulting

    Ebony can help you examine the practices and policies of your organization to determine if they are sufficiently adhering to an inclusive and equitable framework. She can also help with the crafting of your TV show, radio show, podcast, book, or other creative work. Are you uplifting marginalized voices? Are you open to critique of your hiring, staffing, and HR policies? Are you open to critique of your creative work? Are you willing to make genuine changes to ensure your stated mission/goals are aligned with your actions? Let’s discuss ways you can grow and learn.

  • Speaking

    Ebony is a skilled public speaker who specializes in topics related to race, gender, adoption, trauma, and the intersectionalities of each. She believes this work should be enlightening, inspiring, and empowering. The goal is to leave attendees with new information about the world, themselves, and a call to action for their lives.

Courses Offered

  • Bias

    This course discusses implicit and explicit bias. Participants learn to identify biases they hold. They also learn to reduce or eradicate those biases through evidence-based tools.

  • The Talk: How to Speak with Kids about Race and Adoption

    This course educates transracial adoptive parents and professionals about ways to engage children about the sometimes difficult topics of race and adoption. What are ways to speak with children at different stages of development? What are good things to say and which things should we avoid saying? These questions and more are answered.

  • Cultural Competency in Medical Health

    This course helps medical providers to increase their capacity to serve people from marginalized groups. The course has a specific aim to educate providers in order to address the Black maternal/infant mortality rate. However, it also discusses classism, sexism, fatphobia, and homoantagonism, Participants will leave this training with strategies to develop a more sympathetic bedside manner.

  • Professional Use of Self with Clients of Diverse Backgrounds

    This course is for mental health professionals and institutions/agencies who train/educate them. It is designed to give clinicians information about best practices for treating clients who are of a different ethnic background. How does race shape the therapeutic relationship? How should I handle if a client accuses me of being racist? How should I handle a client being bigoted towards me? What are the historical precedents set for race in counseling? Participants will receive these answers and more.

  • Trauma-Informed Parenting Techniques

    This course gives parents tool to manage the challenging behaviors of children who come from hard places. The course was developed for parents adopting children from the foster care system but it can be utilized by any parent or professional who works with children. If you are struggling with a child who is having a hard time listening, connecting, or responding to you, consider this training.

  • The Power of Words

    As a globe we are all experiencing hardship and strife. It can be easy to feel powerless. This course shows participants the power they have to motivate change in the world by the words they use and how they engage those around them. Why are pronouns so important? What do some of the new terms I am hearing mean? Should I challenge my loved ones on the hurtful things they say about people different than them? Does it matter? Participants will get answers to these questions and will leave the training with a better understanding of the strength they have to promote good in the world.

collaborative agencies

  • C2Adopt

  • enCircle

  • Gladney University

  • Henrico County Department of Social Services

  • HopeTree Family Services

  • Lighthouse Behavioral Health Center

  • National Council for Adoption

  • PBSKids/WGHB

  • Virginia Commonwealth University

  • Virginia Department of Social Services

  • Virginia Licensed Child Placing Agencies Association