Across The Margin : The Podcast takes listeners on a poetic journey across five continents with the author of Where I’m From, Ebony Walden…
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This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast features an interview with Ebony Walden, an author, filmmaker, speaker, and world traveler. She is the founder of Ebony Walden Consulting, a racial equity–focused consulting firm, and the creator of Black Beyond Borders, a documentary series and podcast exploring culture, creativity, connection, and cuisine across the African community. Ebony also writes Beyond Borders, a weekly Substack newsletter on travel and transformation. Her book, Where I’m From: A Poetic Journey Across Five Continents, is the focus of this episode.
In 2010, twenty-nine-year-old poet Ebony Walden quit her job to go on an eight-month solo journey across fifteen countries and five continents. Propelled by a sense of purpose and adventure, she moves from teaching English and volunteering in places like Guatemala and India to conducting poetry workshops in Kenya, walking the ruins of Machu Picchu, and paragliding over the Swiss Alps. Along the way, Ebony writes “Where I’m From” poems with the people she meets — intimate reflections that capture family, identity and culture, weaving their voices into her own unfolding journey. But each destination also challenges her in unexpected ways, forcing her to reckon with the hardships of growing up in New York in the ’80s and ’90s. Through breathtaking landscapes, unexpected setbacks, and profound encounters with strangers, Ebony begins to understand that travel is not just about seeing the world — it is about allowing the world to change you. Part travel memoir, part coming-of-age story, Where I’m From invites readers to take their own journey beyond borders and come home to themselves.
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