Dashawn Ealey is a New York City native, born and bred in Brooklyn. He was awarded a full-tuition leadership scholarship from The Posse Foundation and went on to earn his B.A. in African, African American Diaspora Studies from Wheaton College in 2011. After completing a master's degree in higher education from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania in 2015, he oversaw the implementation and scaling of the BA/BFA Dual-Degree program, Student Veteran Services and the Higher Education Opportunity Programs at The New School. As an employee, he enrolled in The New School's master’s in psychology program in 2019, to gain a better understanding of the optimal ways to incorporate positive mental health practices into the student experience. Dashawn is particularly interested in the intersections of race, sexual orientation, trauma, and mental health for BIPOC and large-scale, low-intensity psychological interventions for low-income communities.