Ebony Reed began her career as a reporter at the Plain Dealer, covering Cleveland public schools, documenting public education's inequities. The Investigative Reporters & Editors Association honored her examination of how social promotion impacted the district's majority Black and brown students when teachers promoted students to the next grade, although they had not met state academic standards. At the Detroit News, she managed the local coverage of the 2008 financial crisis that crushed many families and had a lasting impact on Black families. In Boston, Ebony was a deputy bureau chief overseeing the regional operation in the six New England states. Ebony, now the Chief Strategy Officer at The Marshall Project, has held other roles in newsroom, administration and business operations with the Boston Business Journal, NPR's Planet Money and the Wall Street Journal. She's taught journalism and media classes at more than a half dozen colleges and universities. At the Yale School of Management, Ebony codesigned and co-teaches an MBA class. She's also a board member of United WE, formerly named the Women's Foundation of Kansas City, and resides in Kansas City, Missouri. Ebony has a bachelor degree in journalism, minor in Black studies and M.A. in media management from the Missouri School of Journalism.
