Shawn Grain Carter

Shawn Grain Carter (Col ’82 CM) was honored as one of the recipients of The HistoryMakers 2025 award for her distinguished career as a buyer and senior executive in the fashion and retailing industry over several decades. This award recognizes outstanding professional accomplishments, innovation, exemplary leadership and contributions to society through mentoring partnerships and engagement to promote success among talented youth. Grain Carter, a professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, is the inaugural donor for the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Social Justice Scholarship.