Dr. Shari Becker Albright

Charles Butt Foundation

"Holdsworth locks arms with our school districts to grapple with one of public education’s essential challenges – building the conditions necessary for educators to effectively do their work. Helping districts learn to solve their human capital challenges now and for the future is core to this essential work."

Dr. Shari Becker Albright serves as the President of the Charles Butt Foundation, formerly the Raise Your Hand Texas Education Foundation. Before joining the foundation, she held the Murchison Distinguished Professorship in Education and served as the chair of the Department of Education at Trinity University. She also served as president of the Texas Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (TACTE), the statewide Council of Deans of Education.

Previously, she was the executive director of education at the Asia Society and CEO of the Asia Society’s International Studies Schools Network headquartered in New York.

Shari also served as the principal of a public magnet school 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 awarded the Goldman Sachs Prize in International Education. She also served as an elementary school administrator, central office administrator, and elementary teacher in East Central ISD prior to teaching on the faculty of Trinity University.

Shari earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Trinity University and her doctorate in educational leadership from Teachers College – Columbia University.

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