Ebonie Reavis

Ebonie is a rising senior electrical engineering student and is planning to graduate in Fall 2023. Her future career goals include being a project manager and eventually a CTO of a company/non-profit. She also sees herself practicing philanthropy to help others in disadvantaged communities and others who have similar identities as her.  Ebonie has been extremely active in communities in Engineering that promote diversity and inclusion.  She is an active member of many student organizations including NSBE (National Society of Black Engineers), SHPE (Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers), EWB (Engineers without borders) and ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers). In particular, she is very involved in NSBE and plans to attend nationals to represent UW-Madison in the Black Professional community. Through this organization, she has helped cultivate and safe space for Engineers of Color on campus.

Ebonie is also part of the LEED and Posse Scholar communities. As a LEED scholar she has participated in the Engineering Outreach initiative to help High School students feel inspired to be engineers. As a Posse scholar, she has mentored over 20 lower classmen in their efforts at UW-Madison and how they could reach their true potential as a scholar.  She is the Diversity and Social Chair for KASPER dance team on campus in which she helps develop a safe space for the dance community and immerse students in culture. She has been chosen twice as a student representative for multiple successful hiring committees for the Dean Of Students Office and was also the student representative of the UW Assistant director of Bias hiring committee.

Professionally, Ebonie has worked at GE Healthcare as a Lead Program Integrator for the Anesthesia and Respiratory machines to aid the COVID-19 pandemic response in Spring 2021. She has also been a mentor in the GE Girls program where they immerse young elementary-level girls in the world of engineering through fun summer activities. Additionally, she has led sections of the Women’s Network at GE where she gave presentations about diversity and inclusion in the workplace.