Ebony Perro

Ebony L. Perro is a senior professor of practice in the English department's first-year writing program and serves as the associate director of first-year writing. She teaches writing 1010 courses under the theme “urgent writing for urgent times" and a TIDES course focused on youth activism. At Tulane, she has served as a first-year faculty fellow, college scholars faculty principal and first-generation student mentor. She is a two-time graduate of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is also a proud first-generation graduate and HBCU graduate. She earned her PhD in humanities, with concentrations in Africana women’s studies and English, from Clark Atlanta University.