SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND (June 19, 2025) — Dr Karen A Stout, who has led Achieving the Dream (ATD) through a period of steady growth, innovation, and influence in meeting the changing needs of the nation’s community colleges and other institutions that provide a foothold for poverty-impacted students, adult learners, and first-generation students in higher education, will step down as ATD’s president and CEO, effective June 30, 2026, the ATD Board of Directors announced today.