Dr. Sharon Latten Clark
BESE District 2 Representative

Dr. Sharon Latten-Clark is the Charter Director of Sophie B. Wright High School in New Orleans and has career in public education spanning over a quarter of a century. She began as a para-educator and English teacher in the Houston Independent school district before returning to teach English at Fredrick Douglass High School. She served as an Assistant Principal in Phoenix, Arizona, before returning home to lead Sophie B Wright Public School. Dr. Clark led Sophie B. Wright prior to Hurricane Katrina and transformed it into a high-performing, open-enrollment school. A Xavier Prep High School graduate, Dr. Clark earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from Xavier University and a Doctorate from the University of New Orleans in Educational Leadership.

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