Ebonne L. Leaphart is Vice President of Local Media Development (LMD) at Comcast. Her team’s mission is to enhance Comcast’s local reach, relationships, and impact through local investment advocacy reports, commemorative and community programming, and corporate administration communications. LMD’s broad portfolio of assets includes: State and Local Economic Impact Reporting; Comcast Center Campus programming; The Universal Sphere; Comcast Newsmakers’ national platform; and the Voices of the Civil Rights Movement platform — among the nation's most comprehensive collections of firsthand accounts from the 1960s civil rights movement.
Before taking the helm of Comcast’s LMD team, Ebonne led diversity media communications for Comcast Corporation — overseeing national diversity advertising; print, radio, and online communications; national surveys; and executive multimedia consulting. She launched the company's annual public diversity report and mandatory employee diversity training.
Prior to joining Comcast in 2011, Ebonne was an English and Spanish producer for the internationally acclaimed television series, “CNN Heroes.” At CNN, Ebonne produced award-winning multilingual stories on “ordinary people with an extraordinary impact” in 19 cities across five continents.
Ebonne began her career as an on-air reporter for WCAX-TV, a CBS affiliate in Burlington, Vermont. She has worked as a reporter/producer for NPR in Washington, D.C., and a CNN Fellow and contributor for CNN’s Washington, D.C., Bureau. She also served as a co-producer for the award-winning intergenerational documentary, “Life’s Essentials with Ruby Dee,” released in 2014. Ebonne was recognized on Cablefax's 2021 Diversity List, 2020 and 2019 "Most Powerful Women in Cable" lists, and 2018 “Most Influential Minorities in Cable" list.
Ebonne serves on the Board of Directors for breastcancer.org and is an Emeritus Board member of the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC). Since 1999, Ebonne has served as co-founder and volunteer for the Mother-Daughter Senior Decorating Service, LLC, a residential decorating service for senior citizens and people with disabilities.
Ebonne is a graduate of Northwestern University School of Law and the Medill Graduate School of Journalism. She is also a proud alumna of Spelman College.
