Vernon, Florida High School has announced their Black History Month Program on Friday, February 24, 2023, at 9AM.
The event will be presented virtually as well as in-person) and the theme for this year is ‘Black Resistance’.
The speaker for the event will be Shelly Clark, who moved to Florida from Columbus, Ohio in 2008 with over 25 years of professional experience in state and local executive and judicial administration.
After earning a law degree in 2000, she discovered her preference for working upstream in the justice system.
She is the proudest of her work with youth, including the creation of a youth leadership retreat, peer mediation training and foster parenting teenage girls.
For the last 20 years, she has served in various capacities in education, including consulting; classroom instruction, in public and private secondary schools; and 8 years at Gulf Coast State College teaching Political Science.
She currently serves as President of the League of Women Voters of Bay County and on the Board of the Friends of the Bay County Public Library.
Shelly’s favorite quote is ‘If there is no struggle, there is no progress’, by Frederick Douglass.
Following the ceremony, VHS will host their annual Soul Food Day.
All are cordially invited to attend the program.
