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.