welcome Chastity!

When Chastity Catchings was a child she had a dream to become, “a fancy international businesswoman who wore great heels.”  Today she serves as the first Director of People and Culture for Northwest Education Access.

Chastity, Director of People and Culture

Chastity’s drive for disrupting, transforming and collaboratively innovating on systems of inequities are the driving force for the work she does. She is passionate about ensuring that opportunities and creative space are available for global majority  scholars so that they may be able to decide and change their own trajectory exponentially. 

Chastity is a self described introvert with an outgoing personality who enjoys spending time being a best friend and wife to an amazing husband, mother of two creative loving young adults, a daughter, a sister and a friend to a close knit circle of the folks she considers to be lucky to know. She enjoys getting her hands dirty attempting to be a gardener in the summer, dipping her toe in architectural photography and catching views that help you experience nature.

Chastity considers Washington home but has roots in San Diego and Mississippi. She graduated from the University of Hawaii West Oahu with a degree in Business Administration with a focus on Management. She holds a Finance in Education Certification from Georgetown University. She was the first college graduate in her family and remembers being a child teaching her grandmother to write her own name.

Reflecting on her childhood dreams and the journey she’s taken to get here today, 

Chastity would say she ain’t doing too bad  but her passport could use a few more stamps before she’s truly a jet setting businesswoman. She hopes that her ancestors are proud of her, her kids are inspired by her and the community of people she humbly serves and supports find value in her efforts with no need for them to know who she is.