Dr. Christine Clark is the Executive Director of OHRP, an arm of the Office of the President at the University of Maryland. She is also Affiliate Faculty in the departments of Education Policy and Leadership and Curriculum and Instruction and an Affiliated Faculty of the Maryland Institute for Minority Achievement and Urban Education in the College of Education at Maryland.

Previously, Clark was an Associate Professor and the Coordinator of the Urban Educational Leadership Doctoral Program in the Division of Educational Studies at the University of Cincinnati, and an Assistant Professor of Teacher Education/Curriculum and Instruction/Multicultural Education at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces.

During the 1998-1999 academic year, Clark was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at La Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez where she conducted research with graduate students on the theme "Violencia en Espacios Escolares" (Violence in Schools). Her area of specialty is in the development of critical multicultural, bilingual education as a tool for disarming violence in schools and communities.

Clark was a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) for seven years and is currently on the Editorial Board for the organization’s journal, Multicultural Perspectives. Clark is also the Associate Editor for the Higher Education section of Multicultural Education.

Clark received a B.A. in economics with a minor in geology from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and an M.Ed. with areas of specialization in cross-cultural counseling and multicultural curriculum development, and an Ed.D. with areas of specialization in multicultural/bilingual education, multicultural organizational/community development, and urban educational leadership, both from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Christine is also the editor of the Schools as Breeding Grounds for Prisons Book Project. To read about it or contribute to it, please click on the links below.