A 2020 Orbie Award Finalist for CIO of The Year, Dr. Damian Clarke is the Chief Information Officer at Meharry Medical College. Formerly at Alabama A&M University, where Dr. Clarke served as Chair of the Alabama Higher Education CIO Council. A leader in innovation, Dr. Clarke is a founding member of the Minority Serving – Cyberinfrastructure Consortium, a transformational partnership to advance cyberinfrastructure capabilities on HBCU, HSI, TCU, and MSI campuses, with data, research computing, teaching, collaboration, & capacity-building connections.