Founder and CEO Chastity Bowick is an award-winning activist, civil rights leader, and transgender health advocate.

Chastity previously served as the Executive Director of the Transgender Emergency Fund of Massachusetts, Inc., which is the leading crisis agency for transgender communities in Massachusetts. Prior to her work with TEF and Trans Resistance, Chastity served as a board member of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition from 2014 to 2018. MTPC is an organization dedicated to ending discrimination based on gender identity and gender expression. She has also led transgender health programming at AIDS Project Worcester. Many of the support groups and transgender-focused health navigation models she founded in Worcester were the first of its kind in the city. Currently, she is the Community Engagement Director at Massachusetts General Hospital’s CARE Research center.

With her personal knowledge and education Chastity has provided trainings, speaking engagements, and consulting for dozens of nonprofits, political groups, universities, and corporate companies throughout Massachusetts.