Areas of Interest
Sport Law & Contracts · Collegiate & Professional Sports Compliance · Labor & Risk Management in Sport · Athlete & League Legal Affairs
Biography
Ebony Harris is an Adjunct Faculty member in Sport Law at Barry University and a Barry Sport Management alumna (B.S. and M.S.). She began her sports career as an intern with the Miami HEAT and spent five years with the organization before earning her law degree, summa cum laude, from Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston. She went on to work for the Charlotte Hornets, San Antonio Spurs, and Dallas Mavericks before moving into sports law full time.
Harris currently serves as Associate General Counsel for the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers. In the classroom, she brings a practicing in-house counsel’s perspective, guiding students through the contracts, compliance, labor, and riskmanagement issues that shape the modern sport industry.