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Dr. Ebony Kirkland - aka The Ethnic Marketing Guru

Dr.Ebony Kirkland

Dr. Ebony G. Kirkland is the founder, President CEO of Ebony Marketing Research, Inc one of the nations’s foremost marketing research firms specializing in multicultural research for business, government agencies and non-profit organizations within the United States and Central America. Under Dr. Kirkland’s direction the firm has garnered an array of fortune 500 companies as clients such as, Proctor & Gamble, Coca-Cola, Verizon, Hallmark, and Mc Donald’s. Her firm has established offices in New York, New Jersey, Washington DC, Miami and Costa Rica. Born of Hispanic heritage and decent in San Jose, Costa Rica; Dr.. Kirkland graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Queens College, City University of New York. She furthered her education graduating with a MBA in Administration from New York University. Pursuant to her Masters Degree she received a degree in business management from The Harvard Business School. Ms. Kirkland has currently completed her Doctorate of Divinity degree from U TS. Prior to forming Ebony Marketing Research Inc., Dr Kirkland taught and lectured at New York Technical College where she served as Director and Chairperson of the Women’s Program. She later served as the assistant to the Dean at York College. Although she became an established well-respected entrepreneur, Mrs. Kirkland, continued to share her knowledge and experience by designing training programs, market courses and workshops for governmental and non-profit organizations. She has traveled extensively under the sponsorship of the Atlantic Council of the U.S., The United States Information Agency and the Inet Foundation conducting training programs to inspire women entrepreneurs in Russia, Poland, China, South Africa and other countries. Her lecture portfolio includes: “Starting and Managing Your Own Business-A Prima for Budding Entrepreneurs”: -presented and published in Beijing, China in 1996 and “Changes and Opportunity”-presented in Taipei, Taiwan, 1997. Her professional affiliations are as follows: Board member Bronx Initiative Corporation, Member of the Hispanic Chamber of commerce, Advisory Board of Women Presidents Organization, The Marketing Research Association and The American Marketing Association. Known in many circles as “The Ethnic Marketing Guru”, Dr. Kirkland has been featured as a guest on a number of TV and radio programs and has contributed to numerous magazines and publications where she has addressed the challenges of multicultural marketing. Many companies consider Dr. Kirkland as their “go to” person when they are faced with difficult ethnic or multicultural marketing problems.