About Eboni

About Eboni. 

Principal

Eboni has over two decades of professional experience in strategic-philanthropy and arts-administration. As a consultant for arts & culture institutions and other mission-driven clients, she has significant experience providing strategic direction to senior leadership on matters related to philanthropy, strategy initiatives, board development, and equity & inclusion. Her unique insights are a vital and inherent component of how she approaches the process of identifying and successfully convening clients around solutions that improve the impact of their vision and goals.

This experience, coupled with 9 years in Executive Search, allows Eboni “an insider’s” perspective on the challenges facing the nonprofit world. Her decades of experience working in, and alongside, nonprofit organizations strongly influence her ability to identify and successfully place executive talent in roles that align with the candidates’ skills and the organizations’ gaps and needs. Recent search partners include The Museum of Modern Art, The Jackie Robinson Museum, the National Civil Rights Museum, and Carnegie Museum of Art.

Before moving to search, Eboni functioned in a variety of roles including Head of VIP Relations and Strategic Initiatives for EXPO CHICAGO—an annual international contemporary and modern art exhibition, Director of Special Projects for the Museum of the City of New York, and Vice President of two corporate foundations: RBC (Royal Bank of Canada) Capital Markets Charitable Foundation, USA, and TD Bank’s Charitable Foundation.

Eboni also spent over a decade leading her own consulting practice, Gates Consulting Group, where she functioned as a consultant to mission-driven clients around issues of strategic philanthropy and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Representative clients included The Studio Museum in Harlem, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Morgan Stanley Global Wealth Management, Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care, the University of Virginia, and Sullivan and Cromwell’s Pipeline Crisis/Winning Strategies Initiative on young black men—an incubator project of the Fund for the City of New York (“FCNY”).

Eboni currently lives in Chicago with her identical 9-year-old twins, Max & Trace. In the 5 years she has been in Chicago, she has embedded herself in the cultural fabric of the city and has become an integral part of the community that uses the arts as an economic engine to propel Chicago into the future. There, she sits on the Leadership Advisory Committee and the Acquisitions Committee for The Society of Contemporary Art (SCA) at the Art Institute of Chicago. Previously a resident of New York, Eboni served as gala co-chair and Executive Committee member of MoMA’s Black Arts Council.