Ebony Kirkendoll

Director of Organizations and Technical Assistance

Ebony Kirkendoll was born and raised on the North Side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is a bold, intentional, and empowering leader who is passionate about the equitable development of young people, professionals, and her hometown’s future.

Although she was raised in the City of Milwaukee, her K-12 education was spent in the surrounding suburban school district via state sponsored program, Chapter 220. This put her in a unique situation to see the disparities in education very early on, and how those disparities directly correlated to other inequities. After High School, she went on to graduate in 2015 from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with her Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Language and Literature. Shortly after graduating, she joined City Year Milwaukee in hopes of defining her career path, possibly towards becoming an ESL teacher.

Her drive for the young people of Milwaukee chartered her decisions in the following years; co-leading a team of 8 at a High School (2016), hired on as staff in her role as Impact Manager at a K8 school (2017) and quickly excelling to her final role, Senior Impact Manger, and Interim Impact-Director (2018). In her time at City Year Milwaukee she developed key strategies on effective team management and coaching models that balance personal and organizational priorities. Ebony has been praised for her strengths in data driven decision making, her whole person approach and wide-scale event planning and implementation.

Ebony left the non-profit sector and joined UBUNTU Research and Evaluation in June 2021 amidst the pandemic, seeking to be able to make true transformative change for organizations and Milwaukee’s education system. Since joining the team she has engaged in community-based learning projects and evaluations that seek to transform the landscape of the city. Facilitate learning journey’s and help organizations create new actionable, and accountable strategies to be anti-racist in hopes to create the Beloved Community.

She has been able to engage in reading that truly challenge her thinking and stimulate her vision of what our future can be, which she hasn’t really had the time to do since college. As well as re-engaged in her passion of creating with her hands, currently creating, and selling her resin art pieces. Ebony enjoys spending time with her friends and family, while travelling

and tasting delicious foods along the way. You can find her binge watching the latest Netflix series and being intentional on making sure she is well.

ebony@ubunturesearch.com | 414-563-7907