Dr. Clark Power

Clark is the Founder and Executive Director of Play Like a Champion Today, a twenty year-old non-profit dedicated to bringing about equitable youth sport participation through coach education and community organizing in economically distressed urban neighborhoods. He recieved his doctoral degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Human Development. A professor of psychology and education at the University of Notre Dame for 42 years, his research and publications focus on moral development and democratic education in schools and athletics. While at Notre Dame, Clark served on the Faculty Board on Athletics. Clark served as the President of the Association for Moral Education He received the Lifetime Impact Award from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition in Nutrition in 2024. Clark sits on the Boards of Collective Impact organizations in Chicago, Philadelphia, and South Bend.