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Apr 8, 2021
Dear Concord Academy Community,
We are excited to announce the hiring of Grant Hightower as CA’s new director of community and equity as of July 1, 2021. Grant comes to us as a seasoned diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) activist, practitioner, and consultant. Most recently, Grant has served as the director of METCO programs at the Reading Public School District. There, he oversaw the district’s desegregation initiative, designed to provide equal access to educational opportunity for 70 K-12 students, and provided leadership and support to the district population in accessing cultural, ethnic, and pedagogical diversity. Prioritizing the perspectives and lived experiences of students, and providing them with tools for empowerment, in Reading and in his prior administrative work with the Wellesley Public School District, Grant has helped to change structures and systems and develop antiracist and culturally responsive teaching practices. He holds a bache