Dr. Joyce Brown spoke to the Cut about running FIT, a task she compares to running a little city where no one sleeps, and her current priorities of focus: ustainability, biodesign, and inclusion
Successful women talk about managing their careers, and their lives.Fashion Institute of Technology president Dr. Joyce Brown has dedicated her career to working in higher public education. She held a number of senior administrative posts at the City University of New York before arriving at FIT in 1998, including acting president of Bernard Baruch College and vice-chancellor of the university.
Every day is different — Dr. Brown compares running FIT to running a little city where no one sleeps. And when it comes to education, you’re always working within a changing landscape. Right now, headed into the new school year, the focus is on sustainability, biodesign, and inclusion. The school’s latest endeavor, the Social Justice Center, was born out of a larger conversation about thein the fashion industry.
Dr. Brown may be president of a New York City institution, but she she takes time to get away from the city and go upstate to garden and read when she can. She lives in New York City with her husband, H. Carl McCall. Here’s how she gets it done.Generally, I try not to have to be up and going before seven. I’m not a breakfast person. I’m a tea drinker. I make tea and I start with emails and see what happened during the night, because something always does.
Much of what people were talking about had to do with the lack of diversity, the lack of opportunity for people of color in those industries. The murder of George Floyd raised the consciousness of people all over the world. The conversation changed, and it seemed to me that the thing we could best do is address those things at our doorstep where we were sending our students.
I really do think we are in a position to make a tremendous difference. There’s nothing quite like the transformative power of education. It puts people on an equal footing and it will open doors that these young people would not normally have had the opportunity to even know about.I’ve been here 24 years now. A lot of things have changed. One is the huge impact of technology on education.
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