HBCU TIMES AMBASSADOR SPOTLIGHT
DR. KIERRA ALEXIS CARTER
D r. Kierra Alexis Carter is a native of Florence, South Carolina. She enjoys the arts, traveling, and outdoor activities. She is an alumnus of Wilson High School, Claflin University, South Carolina State University, and North Carolina A&T State University. Dr. Kierra Carter has made her journey at Claflin worthwhile. She was Miss Freshman, Miss Student Support Services, and a cheerleader for 3 years (co-captain). Her sophomore year she became a member of the Alice Carson Tisdale’s Honors College, the first African American Miss Florence 2015, and a Miss South Carolina Pageant participant. She is also the founder of Helping Everyone Avoid Loneliness which is a support group for college students who are facing internal obstacles in school. Her junior year, she became a member of 3 National Honors Societies. Finally, during her senior year she became a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated and served as Miss Claflin University 2016-2017. In graduate school, she was a doctoral fellow at Langston University. Upon many other accolades, Dr. Carter graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.A. in Psychology with a double minor in Mass Communications and Theatre and pursued an M.A. in Rehabilitation Counseling. She then received her Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision. All degrees were debt free. She recorded two commercials for BET, was honored with a Girls Rock Award from Palmetto Youth Academy, a trailblazer award from the Isaac Wilson Project, and was honored at New Ebenezer Baptist Church and by Hopkins Middle School for her community service. She is the author of It Had to Happen and Life Happens (available on amazon) and serves in her graduate chapter and church. She is currently a licensed therapist in NC and SC, Life Coach, CEO of Karter Water, and model for HBCU Times Magazine. Her favorite scripture is 2 Corinthians 12:9, “But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.”
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