Ebony Chappel joins Leadership Indianapolis
We are thrilled to have Ebony Chappel join Leadership Indianapolis as Program & Communications Manager!
Ebony is an award-winning multimedia journalist and certified community health worker. Her work has garnered recognition from the Society of Professional Journalists, Hoosier State Press Association, National Newspaper Publishers Association and the Association for Multicultural Affairs in Transplantation among other honors.
She previously worked for the Indianapolis Recorder Newspaper and Indiana Minority Business Magazine where she held many roles including, editor in chief. Through her most recent position, with Indiana Donor Network, she led outreach efforts in communities of color, the LGBTQ+ community, Hoosiers living with HIV and various faith groups on the lifesaving gift of organ, tissue and eye donation.
Staying connected to her journalistic roots, Ebony can be heard on the airwaves each Sunday morning where she hosts Open Lines, a community affairs show that airs at 8AM on both 106.7 WTLC and Hot 96.3 FM.
She is an alum of two Leadership Indianapolis programs, LEAD and Opportunity Indianapolis, and is thrilled to take her self-described career as a “community servant,” to the next level by joining the LI team as Program & Communications Manager.
Ebony is a proud product of Haughville, Indiana and a Ball State Cardinal.
Welcome to the LI team, Ebony!
Ms. Ebony Chappel,
I just watched a YouTube video episode of one of The Breakfast Club, and the special guest was Umar Johnson. Your article on him from 2017 was a great source of information for my research. I was attempting to find out who he was. Thanks to your eyewitness account of his speaking lecture in March 2017, I have been enlightened on his ego and his content of his character. I felt like from what I heard him say on the Breakfast Club he was a bit sheisty at best.
So, thank you so very much for your open-minded candor during your opening of that article and your perspective. Keep up the great work, and congratulations on your promotion to Program & Communications Manager with Leadership Indianapolis.