Delante Clark, is the founder of the Institute for Digital Equity and Attention Science (I.D.E.A.S.), is a PhD student, public scholar, and systems thinker. He earned his Master of Public Administration from the University of Central Florida, where he now serves as an Adjunct Lecturer.

Raised in Harlem, New York, his intellectual trajectory is inseparable from lived experience inside the very systems he now studies. Delante is the creator of the Attention Safeguard Models (ASM), an active, applied system for measuring attention as a finite, socially stratified resource, and the Cognitive Attentional Standards Platform (C.A.S.), an operational system that uses ASM scoring to evaluate digital platforms and measure attention harm.