Jessica Faye Carter is an American lawyer, author, and businesswoman. She is the founder and chief executive officer of Nette Media, a company specializing in social media technologies for women. Her award-winning book, Double Outsiders, was published in 2007 by JIST Works.

Carter is a nationally recognized expert on cultural and gender diversity in the workplace and advises corporations, organizations and educational institutions. She is a contributor to True/Slant

True/Slant

True/Slant , a company based in a loft in SoHo in New York City funded with $3 million in capital by Forbes Media and Fuse Capital and sold to Forbes in May 2010, was an original content news network....

and a columnist for Examiner.com. She is a frequent presenter at conferences.

Carter holds a Juris Doctor

Juris Doctor

Juris Doctor is a professional doctorate and first professional graduate degree in law.The degree was first awarded by Harvard University in the United States in the late 19th century and was created as a modern version of the old European doctor of law degree Juris Doctor (see etymology and...

 from the Duke University School of Law

Duke University School of Law

The Duke University School of Law is the law school and a constituent academic unit of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States. One of Duke's 10 schools and colleges, the School of Law began as the Trinity College School of Law in 1868. In 1924, following the renaming of Trinity...

 and Master of Business Administration

Master of Business Administration

The Master of Business Administration is a :master's degree in business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines. The MBA designation originated in the United States, emerging from the late 19th century as the country industrialized and companies sought out...

 from The Fuqua School of Business, a Master of Divinity

Master of Divinity

In the academic study of theology, the Master of Divinity is the first professional degree of the pastoral profession in North America...

 from Princeton Theological Seminary

Princeton Theological Seminary

Princeton Theological Seminary is a theological seminary of the Presbyterian Church located in the Borough of Princeton, New Jersey in the United States...

 and a Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...

 from Spelman College

Spelman College

Spelman College is a four-year liberal arts women's college located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The college is part of the Atlanta University Center academic consortium in Atlanta. Founded in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, Spelman was the first historically black female...

. During her studies at Duke Law, she was editor-in-chief of the Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy

Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy

The Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy is an interdisciplinary law journal published by students at the Duke University School of Law....

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External links

• Official Website
• "Seven Ways to Help Supervisors to 'Get' Diversity," by Celeste Blackburn, EmploymentLawPost.com, February 15, 2009.
• "Leave none behind," National Law Journal, December 8, 2008.
• "Secrets of Success," Working Mother, June/July 2008.
• "Book Reviews" by Soroya Brantley, The Network Journal, March 2008.
• "Black CEOs: a tiny group shrinks more," by Ellen Simon, Associated Press, Nov. 7, 2007.
• "Interviewers Shocked When Interviewee Is Not What They Expect," "At Work," (column) by Lindsay Novak, 2007.