Terri Clark was appointed the Arizona Literacy Director for the State of Arizona in June 2012. As Arizona’s Literacy Director, Ms. Clark is responsible for working in partnership with the Arizona Department of Education, Arizona Head Start Collaboration Office, First Things First, the Governor’s Office of Education, the State Board of Education and philanthropic partners to advance statewide efforts in school readiness and early literacy. As the State Literacy Director, Ms. Clark leads Read On Arizona, a public/private partnership of agencies, philanthropic organizations, and community stakeholders committed to creating an effective continuum of supports to improve language and literacy outcomes for Arizona’s children from birth through age eight.
Ms. Clark is an experienced nonprofit executive with an excellent record of leadership and achievement. Before coming to Read On Arizona she served as Executive Director of Bring Me A Book Foundation, a statewide early children’s literacy organization where she led strategic planning, program management, resource development, and oversight of its mission to strengthen language and emerging literacy skills of California’s under-served children.
She previously served as the Executive Director for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation overseeing the programmatic foundation’s arts, education and workforce development programs, including the Fred Rogers Scholarship Awards, the College Internship program, and the Archive of American Television.
Her prior tenure as Executive Director of the Literacy Network of Greater Los Angeles, a coalition of over 250 literacy providers, was an excellent training ground for developing intentional effective literacy interventions and building a seamless delivery system serving over 500,000 literacy learners.
Ms. Clark graduated with honors from Brown University and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Literature & Society.