Chastity Lord
In her role as chief external officer of Achievement First, Chastity is charged with leading the teams directly involved with external relations, marketing and communications, development, partnerships, and expansion.
Prior to joining Achievement First, she was a regional vice president for The Posse Foundation, Inc., a national organization that identifies urban public high school students with academic and leadership potential who may be overlooked by the traditional college admission process. In her role as regional vice president, Ms. Lord was responsible for overseeing the Posse sites in Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
Before joining Posse, she served as the mid-Atlantic regional director for The New Teacher Project (TNTP), a non-profit educational consulting firm that partners with urban school districts, states and other governmental entities to enhance their capacity to recruit, select, train and support outstanding new teachers.
Directly before TNTP, Ms. Lord was the director of program services for Mentors, Inc., a non-profit organization that promotes the academic, career and personal development of public high school students through one-on-one mentoring relationships and enrichment activities.
Chastity holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Oklahoma and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Chastity is a 2012-13 Pahara-Aspen Education Fellow with the Pahara Institute and the Aspen Global Leadership Network, and she also serves on the board of directors for the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law.