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Ebony Walden

Ebony Walden is an urban planner, consultant and facilitator with over a decade of experience working to transform communities. Ebony is the Founder and Principal Consultant at Ebony Walden Consulting (EWC), an urban strategy firm based in Richmond, Virginia. At EWC, she works with community organizations to design and facilitate meetings, workshops, strategic plans and community engagement processes that explore race, equity and the creation of more just and inclusive communities.

Ebony is an Adjunct Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University where she teaches a class on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the City. She is also on the faculty of Initiative of Change’s Community Trustbuilding Fellowship, a program that develops the capacity of community leaders to overcome divisions of race and politics.

Ebony holds a Bachelors in Business Administration from Georgetown University and a Masters in Urban and Environmental Planning from the University of Virginia.