Ebony Martin

After graduation, Martin continued her involvement with Penn State by serving as a member of the board of directors for the Penn State Alumni Association’s New York City chapter in 2015. As an alumna of the Bellisario College, she strived to break barriers in her career by combining her passion for technology and innovation with her love for digital communications. Prior to her current position, she was was the Director of Operations at the United Federation of Teachers, where she helps design and implement service and technology solutions for more than 185,000 New York City teachers and school-related professionals. Prior to the UFT, she worked as a copy editor and page designer at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and as a copywriter at LocalVox Media, Inc. Among her most notable personal accomplishments is singing at the 57th Presidential Inauguration of President Barack Obama with the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir and speaking with Penn State students about entrepreneurship in journalism at the College's Freelance-A-Thon in 2014-15.