Shawn Grain Carter

Fashion Luminary & Business Management Consultant, Professor Shawn Grain Carter is a Style Savant and V.P. Of Contract Management at the SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology. She is a dynamic fashion industry executive and innovative higher education "KOL" with an exceptional background in achieving brand equity and strong gross margin results. She excels in strong cross functional expertise in digital fashion, NFT's, Web 3 interactive media, omni-channel retailing, Global E Commerce, merchandising, strategic planning, licensing and brand management for luxury goods and apparel. Recently, she successfully developed and engineered the debut of FIT's new African American & Africana Studies Minor in the Fall 2020 semester. Professor Grain Carter is also responsible for developing an organizational framework as an OPEN S.U.N.Y. Fellow to promote online learning across all campuses and promote excellence in academic scholarship at F.I.T. In addition, she successfully collaborates with global thought leaders in England, Italy, China, Africa and the Caribbean as a Visiting Scholar and Professor to promote research and encourage diversity and inclusion while supporting organizational inter-disciplinary goals. As a retail business expert, Professor Grain Carter has been recognized as a top Fashion Business Influencer several years in a row and a featured spokesperson across many publications and media including: The Atlantic Magazine, CNBC News, New York Times, Women’s Wear Daily, The Washington Post, NPR, CBS News, Bloomberg.com, Fast Company, Coveteur, Financial Times, Fashionista.com, Retail Dive, Wall Street Journal, NY Post, Retail Wire, Crain's Business, The Zoe Report (TZR) and Business of Fashion. Professor Grain Carter has presented at various retail and academic conferences including WOC Retail, AKA Sorority, Black Retail Action Group, NYSUT, and Adelphi University's Women in Leadership Conference.