Sharon Scott-Chandler fills the number two position at ABCD, playing a key role in overseeing ABCD’s wide array of human services programs. 

Scott-Chandler brings a wealth of experience to this position. A vital member of the ABCD leadership staff since 1999, she served as Vice President, ABCD Head Start and Children’s Services, since 2003. In that position she provided leadership to the $30 million citywide ABCD Head Start program serving 2,400 low-income, pre-school children and their families in 24 centers throughout Boston’s neighborhoods.  

In 2007, Governor Deval Patrick named Scott-Chandler Chair of the Board of the Massachusetts Early Education & Care Department, the primary vehicle for top-level policy and funding decision making affecting the state’s 240,000-plus pre-school children and their families. 

From 1999 to 2003, Scott-Chandler headed ABCD Child Care Choices of Boston (CCCB), the Child Care Resource and Referral Agency (CCRA) for Boston, Brookline, Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop, providing expert leadership to that important program which serves more than 10,400 children and their families and 1,200 licensed providers.  

Prior to joining ABCD, Scott-Chandler served as an Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Before that she was an associate at Morrison, Mahoney & Miller law firm in Boston and earlier was a legislative aide to U.S. Congressman Sidney R. Yates.  

Scott-Chandler received her law degree from Northeastern University Law School and her bachelor’s degree in political science from Tufts University. She is a member of the Board of Directors for Project Hope, Northeastern School of Law Alumni Association, and the Massachusetts Black Lawyers’ Association, among others.