SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Empower Federal Credit Union (FCU) recently announced it has hired Ebony King as the credit union’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) officer. In this new role, King is responsible for the development, implementation, and oversight of Empower’s DEI strategy. She will also identify and support DEI priorities for the nonprofit and work […]
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Empower Federal Credit Union (FCU) recently announced it has hired Ebony King as the credit union’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) officer.
In this new role, King is responsible for the development, implementation, and oversight of Empower’s DEI strategy. She will also identify and support DEI priorities for the nonprofit and work to “translate them into practical and actionable solutions,” per an Empower release.
Internally, she will partner with Empower’s leadership team to “support a culture that promotes staff engagement and commitment to enhance the employee experience.” In addition, she will implement a DEI knowledge-building strategy to educate and raise awareness for leadership, staff, and partners.
King has more than 16 years of experience in the field of diversity, equity, and inclusion, most recently serving as the diversity and inclusion specialist for Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) at Syracuse University.
In that role, she led and facilitated ODI diversity, equity, and inclusion training and workshops. King also implemented the ODI workshop program and served as office liaison to campus departments, offices, committees, and programs.
She also conducted diversity and inclusion presentations, facilitated dialogue on race and ethnicity, and communicated with various programs across the university. King’s prior positions include serving as director of multicultural engagement and senior director of diversity and inclusion for Buena Vista University in Iowa, Empower said.
King is from the Bronx borough of New York City. She received her bachelor’s degree in social work with a minor in psychology, as well as a master’s degree in higher-education administration, from Syracuse University. King also received a diversity and inclusion certificate from Cornell University.
“We are excited to have Ebony join our team in the role of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer,” Erin Fuller, senior VP/chief administrative officer at Empower FCU, said in the release. “This new position is vital to the success of our company.”
Empower Federal Credit Union, based in Syracuse, is a full-service financial institution that provides savings, loans, and other financial products to members in Central New York, and in eight counties throughout New York state. The credit union has grown over the years through a combination of organic growth and mergers — the largest of which was the 2007 combination between Power and Empire FCUs to create Empower FCU.