Chastity Bowick is an award-winning activist, civil rights leader, and transgender health advocate. She served as the Executive Director of the Transgender Emergency Fund of Massachusetts INC (TEF) for seven years, leading the state’s largest crisis agency for transgender individuals facing housing instability, food insecurity, and emergency needs. In January 2023, she launched Chastity’s Consulting & Talent Group, LLC (CCTG), a consulting firm dedicated to uplifting transgender and gender-nonconforming communities while educating service providers on their needs and rights.

Chastity currently serves on the boards of the Boston Women’s Fund, LGBTQ Senior Housing, the MA Commission on LGBTQ Youth, and Boston Pride 4 the People. Originally from Rochester, NY, she moved to Boston at 18 to seek safety and begin her transition. After surviving domestic violence, homelessness, and survival sex work, she pursued higher education and earned a Master’s Certificate in Non-Profit Human Services Management from Clark University in Worcester, MA.

Before her leadership at TEF, Chastity was a board member of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (2014-2018), working to end discrimination based on gender identity and expression. She also led transgender health programming at AIDS Project Worcester, establishing the city’s first trans-focused support groups and health navigation models. She later became the Program Coordinator for TransCEND at the AIDS Action Committee, expanding peer support and health services for transgender individuals in Greater Boston.

Her contributions to transgender advocacy have earned her numerous honors, including the 2020 Audre Lorde Trailblazer Award, 2022 Ad Equity Project LGBTQIA+ Champion Award, the Black Trans Advocacy Conference 2023 Leader Award, Harvard University’s 2023 Trans Community Activist of the Year Award, Massachusetts Official Citation 2024 for Extraordinary Service to Transgender communities across Massachusetts and Marsha P. Johnson 2024 Revival of Love Icon Award.

Chastity remains deeply committed to advocating for transgender individuals, particularly those impacted by homelessness, domestic violence, and survival sex work, ensuring they receive equitable resources, protections, and opportunities.