Ebony White

Ebony M. White, Chief Impact Officer, is a native of Buffalo, NY. Ebony joined the Buffalo Center Health Equity organization six years ago serving as the Community Engagement Coordinator. Ebony is a wife, mother and grandmother and a servant/leader. Ebony’s professional career spans over 25 years of community health and project management experience. Being a champion of informed leadership that understands the micro and macro conditions that perpetuate inequitable social landscapes. Bringing to work, skill, humility, dignity, trust, and the resistance to permit social margins to implode.

A typical workday starts with affirmation that debunking that inequality is norm that must be accepted. Her mind must be clear, her heart must be light and rhythmic, and her body must be strong. Prepared for laughter, hard conversations, and identifying solutions that lead to trust and progress for the community she lives in and serves. Her superpower supports the team’s illuminating presence to see, hear, feel, and carry out the steps to rebuild communities. Adhering to the framework that simply reminds many to meet people where they are and serve them until they get where they are going.

Best career advice came from a form Program Coordinator that looked over her desk sternly and simply asked “Ebony, why are you waiting to make a vertical move?” It was a question that made Ebony question her comfort and the stagnation of her career. That question started a chain of events that sent Ebony to what she calls the informed change of professional plans. Evaluating her skillsets she committed and made ample space for embarking on a learning journey that simultaneously was academic undergraduate education in Community Health and Business Management. Ebony has continued to lead projects of innovation to address high blood pressure, improving access to healthcare, health literacy, and more initiatives that continue to be the building blocks for strong community engagement for change.

Ebony enjoys music, singing, and shopping at estate sales and local consignment shops. One thing Ebony wants to see in her lifetime is the return of consciousness, self-worth, and effectiveness of power collaboratives to detour the plans of systemic socioeconomic generational blithe.