Kristen V. Carter is an award-winning executive producer, entrepreneur and speaker from Newark, New Jersey. Most recently, Kristen served as Showrunner and Executive Producer for the PBS gospel music concert special entitled GOSPEL Live! Presented by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. that featured performances by John Legend, Erica Campbell and Anthony Hamilton. To support the show’s publicity efforts, Kristen’s production company Kristen V. Carter Entertainment LLC created and executed the four-city promotional initiative, GOSPEL Live! Screening and Q&A Talkback Tour, co-produced by Morris Street Media in association with PBS and McGee Media. The tour producers secured major national press opportunities including GMA3 and ABC News Live.
In 2022, Kristen served as an Executive Producer for the Discovery Plus four-part documentary series Profiled: The Black Man about debunking stereotypes that Black men in America face in society. The series received special recognition from the Television Academy for social justice content. Notably, Kristen directed and showran Chase’s digital financial literacy series Hart of It All which starred Kevin Hart. Within her dual role as Showrunner and Director, she developed the series format while simultaneously overseeing creative execution from pre-production to post. She enjoys contributing to social impact programming including the 2019 Facebook live stream event National Day of Racial Healing, curated by Ava DuVernay, and the 2020 Virtual Commencement special Show Me Your Walk: HBCU Edition, which featured President Barack Obama as the honored commencement speaker.
In addition to entertainment, Kristen is actively engaged in mentorship and empowering the community about self-actualization. Kristen is the founder of Trust Your Magic™, an inspirational brand that reinforces the power of honoring one’s gifts and talents. She hosts a podcast of the same name that features guests who have taken a significant leap of faith to shift their lives. Through the brand, she also facilitates an interactive workshop for professionals to build lives of fulfillment and become six figure-plus earners. She has served as a featured speaker for conferences including Newark Board of Education’s 3rd Annual Women’s Leadership Conference and the Black Woman Leading Conference & Retreat.
Kristen is the recipient of many awards including San Francisco Black Film Festival’s First Time Filmmaker Award, From the Heart Productions’ Fiscal Sponsorship, and the Hanks-Miller Screenwriting Fellowship. She is also the Head of Community Engagement and Career Development for HUE You Know, a production resource group for professionals of color. The organization currently consists of 22,000+ members around the nation in various areas of production.
Kristen is a proud graduate of Hofstra University.
