Darnell Billings, who has been a member of the METCO Board of Directors since 2017, is the group’s new board chairman. An associate broker at Keller Williams Realty Boston, Billings is a Boston native who was a METCO student in Lexington Public Schools. He is a graduate of Lexington High School, Class of 2001.

Inspired by his son, a current METCO student in the Lincoln Public Schools, and his wife, a member of the Lincoln METCO Parent Board, he joined the METCO Board of Directors in 2017. He replaces Patrick Kimble, who has served as board chair since 2019. Kimble is founder and managing partner of Caste Capital, a Boston-based alternative investment management firm that he founded in 2021.