sentences:  Ebbin is one of five openly LGBT people serving in the Virginia General Assembly (alongside Mark Sickles, Mark Levine, Dawn Adams, and Danica Roem).A 1985 graduate of the American University in Washington, D.C., Ebbin was a Fellow at the University of Virginia's Sorensen Institute of Political Leadership in 2000.A longtime Democratic Party activist, Ebbin spent a decade on the party's state central committee and was a delegate to both the 2000 and 2004 Democratic national conventions.