Ebony Development Associates is a minority and woman-owned small consulting firm with 14 years of experience in more than 30 countries. This experience has accumulated technical expertise in enterprise, governance and gender that assist in building the institutional capacity and management of development organizations. The goal of Ebony Development Associates is to ensure that private sector development considers race, gender and class when developing inclusive programs and services.

Caroline has 14 years professional experience in project management, training, research and marketing. She is sole proprietor of Ebony Development Associates. She worked at several large international organizations in the US, Canada, Caribbean and Africa. Since Ebony’s inception in 2006, assignments were carried out for various clients globally in places such as Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Jamaica, Jordan, Rwanda, Burundi, DR Congo, Nigeria, Liberia and Haiti.

Caroline has worked and lived in Benin, Egypt and Niger for a number of years managing development finance projects. More recently, she lived in Jamaica courtesy of a Fulbright award where she was affiliated with the University of the West Indies and the Caribbean Policy and Research Institute.

Caroline is all-but-dissertation (ABD) in her doctoral program in Comparative Politics Developing and collaboratively in the Gender and Women’s Studies Institute at the University of Toronto.  She has a MPA from Cornell University (US), a LL.B from University of Canterbury at Kent (UK) and a BA in economic development from Saint Mary’s (Canada).