JOIN US FOR A COFFEE BREAK WITH EBONY WALDEN
Join Tim Soerens in conversation with Ebony Walden, urban planner, world traveler, and storyteller.
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Time: 9am PST/12pm EST
Topic: Being a Good Neighbor While Traveling
We’re excited to welcome Ebony Walden for a conversation on being a good neighbor while traveling.
Based in Richmond, Virginia, Ebony brings over 15 years of experience helping communities design more just and inclusive futures through her work at Ebony Walden Consulting. She is the creator of the Richmond Racial Equity Essays, a multimedia project that uplifts local voices and visions for equity. Ebony also teaches Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the City at Virginia Commonwealth University, grounding her work in both practice and pedagogy.
Tim Soerens will host, exploring how we move through the world with curiosity, care, and cultural humility—and how that connects to Ebony’s powerful leadership in community development and racial equity.
This conversation is sponsored by Fellowship Hall, Parish Collective’s membership community
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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.
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