Gem Murray
... is a designer with an artistic and professional practice that covers a lot of ground.
With experience that spans design, brand strategy, event production, advocacy, and research, Gem seeks to build equity and sustain community, wherever she goes. (Often, she is found somewhere within or in-between the fashion, culture, and arts worlds.)
Gem is currently at the Fashion Institute of Technology leading communications and supporting alumni programs through signature events.
Prior to this, Gem has worked in the nonprofit and higher education space to create mission-based brand and marketing strategies at the University of Pennsylvania and AmeriCorps VISTA.
Gem serves as a board advisor for Closely Crafted, an organization that seeks to reinvigorate American craft in fashion. Gem is a proud member of the New York Fashion Workforce Development Coalition.
In her free time, she is either blowing through rolls of film or perfecting her bagel recipe. She lives in Brooklyn with her gray tuxedo cat Kit.