Letitia Chambers

Who is Letitia Chambers?

Letitia Pearl Caroline Chambers was the first woman to head the staff of a major standing committee of the U.S. Senate. Chambers was also a U.S. representative to the United Nations, the founder and chief executive officer of a Washington, D.C., public policy and consulting firm and is the current director of the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.

Chambers is part Cherokee and the founding director of the board of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation.

As the CEO and founder of Chambers Associates Inc., she made numerous contributions to public policy in a period of three decades. She has often testified as an expert witness, both before the U.S. Congress and in the U.S. court system.