Biography

Shari Becker Albright, EdD, serves as the Norine R. Murchison Distinguished Professor of Practice in Education and the chair of the Department of Education at Trinity University. Before joining Trinity University, she was the executive director of education at the Asia Society and served as the CEO of the Asia Society International Studies Schools Network, a national network of small, internationally themed secondary schools in urban, underserved communities dedicated to preparing college-ready, globally competent citizens for the 21st century. Albright also served as the principal of a public, open-choice magnet school in the North East Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas—the International School of the Americas—and was named the Texas High School Principal of the Year for 2004 by the H-E-B Excellence in Education Awards. In 2004, her school was also awarded the Goldman Sachs Prize in International Education. Albright earned her doctorate at Teachers College, Columbia University, in 1992.