Coy Griffin is a TedX speaker, Educator, Author, and the founder of the fashion technology consulting company, Your Own Creativity (YOC). She is the Operations Director of the Fashion Education Group, which is the holding company for the Council for International African Fashion Education (CIAFE) – with the organization’s headquarters in London and offices in Accra and New York.
Griffin is a guest lecturer specializing in topics related to fashion analytics, technology and operations with experience teaching at Virginia State University, the London College of Fashion. She is also an advisory board member of Long Island University’s Fashion Merchandising and Management program. Griffin works with fashion organizations to integrate technological innovations with the creative world. She has also worked with NIKE and Black Girls Code. She has been featured in media outlets such as Blavity and New York Fashion Week and often participates in educational and interactive events in Accra, Ghana.
Griffin is the author of ‘Leveraging Tech’ and contributing author of the textbook ‘Fashion Marketing in Emerging Economies’ due to be published by Palgrave Macmillan. Griffin has previously worked within analytics at IBM, Johnson & Johnson, and a variety of Fashion Technology startups. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Data Analytics from Clarkson University and presented a Fashion Technology TedX speech at her alma mater.
