Simmons Lettre is a leadership and equity coach, consultant, entrepreneur, and proven nonprofit leader. She believes that through self-reflection, re-imagination, and courageous leadership, individuals, organizations, and communities have the power to transform themselves, their systems, and the world.

Prior to coaching and consulting, she co-founded and served as the Chief Executive Officer of Education Board Partners (EBP) (now merged with Bellwether), a nonprofit dedicated to improving charter school board governance to sustain effective, equitable schools. Before EBP, Simmons led communications for Education Resource Strategies, evaluated program implementation at EL Education, and shaped policy and professional development for the Boston Plan for Excellence and New American Schools. But her favorite position, hands down, was teaching first grade at Benjamin Banneker Public Charter School in Cambridge, MA.

Simmons holds a Masters in School Leadership from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Davidson College. She is an International Coaching Federation certified coach, and completed coaching training at the Teleos Leadership Institute. She currently serves as the board chair at Ensemble Learning, and was the founding board chair at Education Forward DC and a former board chair at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington, DC. Simmons is a mentor for the Tiger Woods Foundation and a Pahara-Aspen Education Fellow at the Pahara Institute.