Dr. Dominique Merriweather, a 30-year-old educator who is a Morehouse College graduate, has become the first Black person to be appointed to lead Sutton Middle School in Atlanta, Georgia. He is also now the youngest principal in the entire Atlanta Public School district.
Dr. Merriweather graduated from Westlake High School in 2010 and Morehouse College, an HBCU, in 2014. Back then, he had set his goal to become a corporate attorney and not an educator. But after spending time mentoring and reading to inner city students, he decided to change his path.
“One day, I went to go read to elementary school kids in the Atlanta University Center area and I fell in love with the students,” Merriweather told Fox 5 Atlanta.
