Ebony Hood

Ebony Hood is co-founder of Syatt, a Cleveland-based grassroots organization expanding outdoor recreation access and representation for Black and Brown communities, and serves as Director of Growth & Impact at Syatt. She is also associated with Northeast Ohio STEM education work, including NeoSTEM, and has a background in biology, sustainability, and science education.

Eleven Collaborations Win $4.5 Million for Community Trust-Building

The Alliance for Social Trust and Allstate present the 2026 Trust in Practice Awards as an effort to fund and publicize trust-building as a practical discipline, not a civic sentiment. Tom Wilson says the awards are meant to show how trust can be designed into community engagement, while awardees describe that work as listening before acting, relying on local knowledge, building culturally accessible relationships, and sustaining repeated acts of connection under real community conditions.

The Aspen InstituteJun 16, 20264 min read