Kogod Eminent Scholar Chair in Marketing at the Kogod School of Business, American University (USA). Prof. Grier is the Co-Founder and President of the Race in the Marketplace (RIM) Research Network (of which AGC academics are members), and her expertise spans issues of race, diversity, and equity at the intersection of markets and society, and examines racial dynamics underlying consumption issues. She shares her research in academic journals, photographic narratives, documentary films, and in the currently-developed 2025 AGC poetry book on DEI.