Senior Vice President, Education and Workforce

Jarrad Toussant is Senior Vice President of Education and Workforce at the Dallas Regional Chamber (DRC), which has been recognized as the National Chamber of the Year. 

In his role, Jarrad leads the DRC’s efforts to build and expand regional talent pipelines and economic mobility. 

Jarrad is a proud product of the Texas public education system. Growing up in Pleasant Grove, Dallas, Jarrad graduated from the School for the Talented and Gifted in the Dallas Independent School District. He later earned his undergraduate degree from the Plan II Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was elected Student Body Vice President.   

In 2003, Jarrad moved to New Jersey, where he completed both his master’s in public administration and business administration at Rutgers University. During that time, he served some of the lowest-income cities in the country, spending four years as the Development Director for Teach for America New Jersey, three years as Executive Director of Citizen Schools in Newark, and then as Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s Senior Education Advisor.  

Since returning to Texas, Jarrad has expanded blended learning education, led the advocacy campaign that resulted in the state’s first A-F public school accountability system, and launched the Texas Regional Pathways Network. In his role as Division Director of College, Career and Military Preparation at the Texas Education Agency, Jarrad led partnership and coordination with the Texas Workforce Commission and Texas Higher Education Coordination, and he led the statewide administration of career and technical education, advanced academic programs, and college-career school models.