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Eboni began her career in education at the Early Childhood level teaching preschool for 4 years while receiving her MS.Ed in Early Childhood and Special Education from St. John’s University, Queens, NY, where she also earned her bachelors in Psychology. This Fall 2024, she will pursue her Doctorate of Social Leadership at Omega Graduate School, American Centre for Research in the Social Sciences.
While “SEL” has been magnified in education in more recent years, Eboni understood the importance of prioritizing social emotional learning by intentionally integrating SEL in her classrooms, schoolwide and certainly in her interactions with families before the onset of SEL as best practices in schools across the world. Prior to joining Wayfinder, Eboni lived in Brooklyn, NY where she taught 3rd grade for several years, facilitated school wide DEI training and served as the Special Education Coordinator for an elementary charter school in the Uncommon School Network. In her most recent role as the Restorative Justice Coordinator working to co- lead the school’s Culture Team at a charter high school located in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles. Eboni’s work was rooted in sustaining SEL within school culture. A passion for advocacy ignited in Eboni, and she realized SEL was the key to community, transformation and success. With experience serving in two major cities on opposite coasts, Eboni recognized the need for renewal and that would only happen when school leaders and teachers reignited their passion with SEL as the nucleus of their mission. As the Restorative Justice Coordinator, Eboni trained teachers and school leaders on how to navigate social emotional challenges that they may face throughout their school and how to best support students and families for the most productive transformative outcomes. Eboni has experience with using Wayfinder at her high school and realized how useful it would be for so many other schools and educators.
Eboni is a new mother and enjoys new experiences while learning alongside her daughter through the new wondrous lens of motherhood. She enjoys strolls at the beach, visits to different museums, reading books and dancing with her daughter.
"No significant learning occurs without a significant relationship."-Dr. James Comer, professor of Child Psychiatry at Yale University
