
MEET OUR BOARD

Christina Clark
President
Christina Clark is the Founder and Principal Advisor of the STEM Education and Innovation Center, a specialized firm focusing on K-12 learners and their families, utilizing daily STEM activities as a foundation for learning.
With over two decades of experience across corporate, educational, governmental, and nonprofit sectors in the US, she currently collaborates as a consultant to champion the #Afterschool Matters initiative. STEMEIC, a nonprofit organization, is committed to harnessing the transformative power of education, ensuring that afterschool programs help every child realize their full potential. Christina is a proponent of the vital convergence of community, education, and STEM.
She holds a Bachelor's degree in Management from the University of Maryland University College and a Master's degree in Human Relations from the University of Oklahoma.
You can reach her via email at information@stemeic.org

Khamal Patterson, Esq.
Vice President
Khamal Patterson is an attorney and researcher in the Washington, D.C. area. He currently works as a consultant with History Associates Incorporated (“HAI”) and has the honor of supporting HAI and the National Park Service with site interpretation at the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument in Jackson, Mississippi, one of the newest civil rights monuments honoring courageous leaders in our nation’s fight for equality.
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Khamal was recently a contractor with the United States Department of State’s Cultural Heritage Center where he volunteered to serve as a unit liaison on heritage and space issues.
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Khamal was inspired by aviation and space from a young age. He is from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, a little-known aviation and aerospace hub and site of the famous annual Winston-Salem Air Show. He would watch planes taking off from Smith Reynolds Airport near his house.​
He attended football games with his late uncle at the North Carolina Agriculture and Technical University (“NCA&T”), a Historically Black College and University (“HBCU”) in nearby Greensboro, alma mater of pioneering Black astronaut Ronald E. McNair and home of a top-notch engineering program offering an aerospace concentration.
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Khamal has the pleasure of serving as the Associate Director of the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (“IDEA”) Task Force at the University of Mississippi, School of Law, Center for Air and Space Law since 2021. He is focused on creating opportunities to bring government, community, industry, business, and academia together in service of a brighter tomorrow where everyone has a chance to soar.
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Finally, Khamal has enjoyed the privilege of serving as the President of the Executive Board of the STEM Education and Innovation Center (“STEM EIC”) since 2023. He has been working with STEM EIC since 2021. He is excited to support STEM EIC’s exciting and paradigm-changing programming that provides excellent models for afterschool community enrichment and engagement. His contacts will aid the formulation of cross-cutting approaches to workforce development and technical training at STEM EIC.
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