With a lifelong commitment to STEM, Dr. Sharis M. Lattimore always had a passion for the field and affectionately calls herself a “proud girl geek.”

Dr. Lattimore has served as: a systems engineer with IBM; a high school mathematics and computer programming classroom teacher; a districtwide K-12 technology resource teacher; a budget and finance specialist in Career and Technical Education (CTE); an instructional technology specialist; and she retired as the director of Technology Integration in Jefferson County (KY) Public Schools, a large urban district of 100,000 students. Following retirement, Dr. Lattimore also served as the deputy director for Verizon Innovative Learning Schools in Washington, DC.

Sharis believes in making real-world connections and providing hands-on experiences to enhance learning for students. That passion grew after completing an internship at NASA Langley while in college. Fun fact–It is the same location featured in the movie, Hidden Figures.