Long Biography

Ebony Noelle Golden unflinchingly pursues justice as an artist, scholar, and culture strategist. Hailing from Houston, TX, and currently living and working in Harlem, NY. She is the founder and CEO at Betty’s Daughter Arts Collaborative, LLC. Since 2009, her collaborative has successfully supported organizational transformation and movement building for education, social justice, and cultural wellness campaigns and initiatives with some of the most forward-leaning institutions in the nation. Her creative, coaching and consulting work rely on transparent and equitable partnerships with community members, institutions, and artists actively working for justice and freedom today.

Golden’s creative practice is the foundation of her unique approach to devising justice and organizational wellness strategies. She also works as a community-based artist and attributes her ability to serve the needs of BDAC’s clients to a rigorous performance practice. As a poet, choreographer, and ritual performance artist, Ebony devises and directs site-specific ceremonies, live art installations, and environmental experiments that activate the throughline of Black liberation. In 2022, Ebony was awarded a fellowship from Princeton University's Entrepreneurship Council and Lewis Center for the Arts. In 2020, she launched Jupiter Performance Studio, which houses all of BDAC’s creative and arts education endeavors. Jupiter Performance Studio is a hub for the development, exploration, and production of diasporic Black performance traditions.

Her work embodies the power of art and collaboration as drivers of a movement for liberation. Golden’s approach to community arts, consulting, teaching and cultural organizing is steeped in the practices of Black women, activism, experimental performance and social/spirituality that honors and affirms self-actualized, self-determined, creative and liberated communities.

Ebony’s art-making and teaching centers cultural organizing, transformative movement building, Black feminism, womanism, ritual poetics, and public performance praxis. Most recently, she served as Visiting Associate Professor in Pratt’s Graduate Performance and Performance Studies Program and the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at New School. Golden holds degrees in poetry from Texas A & M University (B.A.) and American University (M.F.A.). She earned a M.A. in Performance Studies from New York University. She is a proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Women of Color in the Arts, and Alternate Roots. Golden serves as an advisor for the National Dance Project at the New England Foundation for the Arts and a board member at Double Edge Theatre.