Ebony A. Utley, Ph.D. is a professorpreneur. As a Professor of Communication Studies at California State University Long Beach she researches, publishes, and teaches interpersonal communication. Her expertise includes improving communication patterns when it comes to initiating, maintaining, and terminating relationships. Her research explores how individuals talk about infidelity, love, marriage, intimacy, and the impact of early childhood sexual violations on adult romantic relationships. In addition to lecturing at universities across the United States, Dr. Utley’s expertise has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Network as well as other national and international radio, print, and online outlets.
As an entrepreneur, Dr. Utley curates experiences and develops technology products for social impact. Her contributions include but are not limited to raising awareness about the dark side of technology, improving romantic relationship communication, supporting women recovering from infidelity, preventing domestic violence through entrepreneurship, and healing from trauma via ebony.yoga.
Her two worlds collide as the Associate Director for the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at California State University Long Beach. Dr. Utley resides on the web at http://theutleyexperience.com
Sub-specialties: Infidelity, Yoga
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He Cheated, She Cheated, We Cheated
[July 16, 2019] -
She Touched Me: Five Snapshots of Adult Sexual Violations of African American Boy
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal [2018] -
What Does Beyoncé Mean to Young Girls?
Journal of Popular Music Studies [2017] -
Infidelity’s Coexistence with Intimate Partner Violence: An Interpretive Description of Women Who Survived a Partner’s Sexual Affair
Western Journal of Communication [2017] -
Rethinking The Other Woman: Exploring Power in Intimate Heterosexual Triangular Relationships
Women’s Studies in Communication [April 7, 2016] -
Rethinking the Other Woman: Exploring Power in Intimate Heterosexual Triangular Relationships
Women’s Studies in Communication [2016] -
Digital Indiscretions: Infidelity in the Age of Technology
Gender, Sex, and Politics: In the Streets and Between the Sheets in the 21st Century [2015] -
Digital Indiscretions: Infidelity in the Age of Technology.
Gender, Sex, and Politics: In the Streets and Between the Sheets in the 21st Century [2015] -
Dr. Utley on Unfaithful: Stories of Betrayal
OWN [May 27, 2013] -
Rap and Religion: Understanding the Gangsta’s God
[June 11, 2012] -
When Better Becomes Worse: Black Wives Describe Their Experiences with Infidelity
Black Women, Gender & Families. 5:1, 66-89 [2011] -
I Used to Love Him: Exploring the Miseducation About Black Love and Sex.
Critical Studies in Media Communication 27:3, 291-308 [2010] -
Show Some Love: Youth Responses to Kiss Me Thru the Phone (with Alisha L. Menzie)
Women and Language 32:2: 68-77 [2009] -
An Exploratory Study of the Meaning of Marriage for African Americans (with Melissa A. Curran and Joel Muraco)
Marriage and Family Review 46:5, 346-365 [2010] -
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