About Ebony
Ebony Lewis, born in Chicago, Illinois, and was raised in Atlanta, Georgia, is a multi-talented individual who simultaneously operates her triplet brains of being a Creative Genius, Entrepreneur, and Pilot. The graduate of Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, earned her Bachelor's degree in Business Management with International honors and studied abroad in England, France, Italy, and South Africa. Her 20 years of experience in corporate Human Resources and Talent Acquisition roles drove her entrepreneurial spirit. She consults for many startups, small businesses, federal government agencies and Fortune 500 companies, within the aviation, aerospace and space tourism industry with their best hiring and recruiting practices and implements diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
A Wanderlust at heart, Ebony has traveled, studied, worked, and lived globally in over 28 different countries and counting. Her multilingual skills in English, Spanish, Italian, French, Arabic and Swahili has given her an authentic and uniquely global perspective to relate to people of diverse cultures and backgrounds to share their truth in personal stories of humanity. When traveling halted during the COVID-19 pandemic, she pursued another bold endeavor and self-studied to earn her Student Private Pilot License and is a lifetime learner of aviation. She is among the few African- American women who make up less than 1% of all professional pilots across the United States.
As an Activist and Change Agent in the aviation industry, where diversity in the skies is rare, it inspired her to write and pre-produce the short film, "NuanceX Skies. She also produced and directed her first short film documentary, “Dear Self...You’re a Goddess" and entered it at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival in New York. As the Chief Imagination Officer (CIO) of her life, she continues to harness her creativity as a Writer, Director and Producer and stays abreast of contemporary film, TV and digital media landscape with Professional Programs at the, University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in Producing, Directing, Screenwriting, and Writing for Television.
In addition, she shares her passion for aviation by mentoring the next generation and volunteers for Sisters of the Skies (SoS), Women in Aviation International (WAI), Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals (OBAP), and We Were Once Them (We WOT). She serves as Board Member & Chief of Staff for We WOT, a non-profit organization that provides STEM education awareness globally with a focus on the aviation and space industries and inspire, motivate and empower the next generation of aviation professionals and business leaders, especially girls and woman. She uses aviation to promote humanitarian efforts making an global impact which were recognized by Women in Aviation International (WAI). Ebony is a 2024 Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, graduate of the Professional & Executive Development, Harvard Division of Continuing Education Participant, Women in Leadership: Program for Emerging Leaders for Women in Aviation International (WAI).
The mom of 3, loves to spend quality time with family; daughter Mysty (28), and twins affectionally known together as “E2”, daughter, Eliyah Jewel (13) and son, Elijah Josiah (13).
Ebony's multi-chapter life and career have soared to new heights personally and professionally. She is finally pursuing her first lifelong dream since childhood of and storytelling and creative content development through multimedia technology and becoming a Pilot. She is admired by industry professionals who comically praises her work ethics to describes Ebony as "Most likely to land a airplane and a TV deal in the same day". As she flies, jet sets to her next destination to write and film projects, the sky is NOT the limit when there are footprints on Mars.
