Sherry Brabham

Sherry F. Brabham is treasurer and vice president for Finance and Administration for the Fashion Institute of Technology, serving as the college’s chief financial officer.

Brabham joined FIT in her current position in 2007, coming from The New School, a university in New York City, where she was chief of staff and a vice president since 2002. At the New School she served as second-in-command to the president, supervising projects and functions for the president’s office, advising the president, and serving as staff to the president in connection with the university’s board of trustees and board of governors.

Before joining The New School, she served as vice chancellor for budget, finance, and administrative computing at The City University of New York from 1999 to 2002.

Brabham served the previous three years, from 1996 to 1999, as vice president for finance and business at Queens College of the City University of New York. Prior to that she served in several administrative positions at the City University of New York, from 1984 to 1995, rising to the position of university budget director.

From 1980 to 1984 Brabham served as a contract administrator and later supervising contract administrator in the Office of Community Management Services for the New Jersey Department of Human Services. Earlier she was a field representative and program specialist in the New Jersey Department of Health Division of Alcoholism, and a counselor and interpreter for the deaf in the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services.

Brabham earned her Bachelor of Arts in audiology and speech pathology in 1973 from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She earned her Master of Divinity in 1976 from Princeton Theological Seminary, where she attended under a Rockefeller Fund for Theological Education Fellowship.