Dr. Clark is currently an associate professor in the School of Journalism & the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University. During the 2020-21 academic year, Dr. Clark was a faculty fellow with the Data & Society research institute.

Prior to joining the faculty at Northeastern, she was an assistant professor in the Media Studies department at the University of Virginia. Her first tenure-track job was in the Mayborn School of Journalism at the University of North Texas. She is a two-time graduate of Florida A&M University (B.A., political science, 2002; M.S., newspaper journalism, 2006). Dr. Clark earned my Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2014.

Dr. Clark is a journalist by training, and have worked for the Capital Outlook (Fla.), the Tallahassee Democrat, the Austin American-Statesman and the Raleigh News & Observer. And for a while, Clark contributed to Poynter.org’s diversity column and USA TODAY.

Her research focuses on the intersections of race, media, and power – covering everything from media processes like newsroom hiring and reporting practices to the digital narratives constructed by social media communities. Dr. Clark has studied Black Twitter since 2010, and is finishing a book about it. Finally, TheRoot.com thought enough of Dr. Clark's work to name her No. 66 of the most 100 influential Black Americans on their 2015 Root 100 list.