Grant Besser

Grant Besser brings over twenty years of marketing and emerging market development experience to his current role as CMO where he leads our brand marketing and digital strategy efforts. In addition, Grant leads the team responsible for building partnerships across the broader coalition of individuals, organizations, and communities committed to ending educational inequity. Grant joined Teach For America in 2007 as the founding member of our Emerging Markets team responsible for expanding TFA’s recruitment beyond its traditional campus based efforts. During his tenure as Vice President, Emerging Markets, the team he managed grew the share of corps members coming from the professional and graduate school sectors from 14% to 28%. In this capacity, Grant also helped diversify and broaden the base of colleges and universities at which we recruit. Graduates from over 800 institutions are represented in our 2013 corps of teachers. Prior to Teach For America, Grant spent fifteen years within the media sector at Turner Broadcasting, Warner Bros. and Yahoo, primarily within brand marketing, international market development, and third party alliance development. Grant is an Emory University graduate who now lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife and three sons.