Trace Carter

Trace Carter is the Senior Administrative Coordinator for the International Arts + Mind Lab. Between 2018 and 2024, she worked in donor analytics and communication, data management, and event coordination for a family services non-profit on the West Coast. She started freelance communications and consulting work in 2022 for Golden Garuda Retreats and later for the launch of Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us (written by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross), managing the social media, newsletter lists, event support, and public correspondence. Before that she worked in various administrative roles, streamlining office operations and managing organization-wide processes.

Trace graduated from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC with a BA in Sociology/Anthropology. Born and raised in the Appalachian Mountains by musicians and artists, she is passionate about communities that are steeped in traditional art forms.