Graduate Fellows
Current Fellows
Roy Luo
Roy Luo is a gender-expansive wearable art designer from Canada. Their design experience spans technical design to material exploration, punctuated by their role as a sweaters & knitwear designer in the industry. Through this experience, they have approached fashion with a critical lens, advocating for a more ecologically and socially sustainable industry. Roy views design as a tool to challenge gendered bodies and material culture, sustainably augmenting the production process of fashion for the better. Roy is a part of the MFA Fashion Design program at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
iemi Hernandez
iemi started off as an assistant video editor at the fashion and luxury agency Laird
+ Partners in late-2019. 2020 hit – the world shut down while iemi's career blossomed.
Her first campaign premiered for Tommy Hilfiger FW 2021. Work with Tiffany’s, Swarovski,
and Boss followed. Boss’s FW 2023 TikTok Behind the Scenes videos earned an average
of 30-millions views – iemi was a post-production producer for this campaign.
She's been a lead editor and post-production producer for Clinique’s videos that have
premiered on global platforms. Since 2022, she's been running her own post-production
company. She joins FIT hoping to build lasting connections.
About the Dean's Fellows
The Dean's Fellows for the School of Graduate Studies exist to develop a graduate student community at FIT. Dean's Fellows are exceptional students that bring a diversity of life experiences and show notable promise in building connections with faculty, staff, alumni, and students.
We welcome individuals across all disciplines and backgrounds to apply for these fellowships, which are awarded on the basis of merit and the promise of outstanding academic and professional achievement.