Ebonie Johnson Cooper believes Black giving is magic and advances nonprofit racial equity, African American donor engagement, church ministry, and fundraising strategies. She is a bi-vocational leader as clinical professor and faculty director for nonprofit executive education at University of Maryland’s Do Good Institute while also serving as ordained minister at Kingdom Fellowship AME Church. She is founding executive director of the Young, Black & Giving Back Institute (YBGB) and has taught at Georgetown University, Trinity University, and Johns Hopkins’ Social Innovation Lab. Ebonie holds degrees from North Carolina A&T State University (BS), New York University (MS), and Wesley Theological Seminary (MDiv) and is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. She resides in Prince George’s County, Maryland and is the proud mother of one precocious son.