2020
DR. A. ANDREA
Licari-LaGrassa
PROFESSOR
ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY
Dr. A. Andrea Licari-LaGrassa has been serving as a full Professor of both Management and
Marketing at St. John’s University, Collins College of Professional Studies, and Director of the
Fashion Institute. She served as both a career mentor and a career coach. Having her hand
on the pulse of industry has given her department the ability to create programs that give SJU
students the greatest career opportunities.
Dr. Licari-LaGrassa has worked diligently in placing students in internships that highlight
her student’s talents. To this end she has chaired the development of Bachelors programs
in Hospitality, Real Estate and the newest group effort is in Sustainable Fashion Studies.
Dr. Licari-LaGrassa came from an international career in marketing, working for global
corporations, such as Trans World Airlines, Union Carbide and Prudential Securities and was
a Fulbright scholar.
Dr. Licari-LaGrassa was also a consultant for the Army ROTC program bridging theory and
practice, and her research in this carried into the field of using Business Games as a teaching
method, in which she has written two books. As a member of Mount Sinai Hospital’s Women
to Women Program, she consulted with women after their diagnoses of gynecological
cancer. In support of this, she has been a member of Congressionally Funded, Department of
Defense Committee on Ovarian Cancer.
She is a member of the board of the Douglaston Local Development Corporation and is a
fundraiser for many non-profits in the city she loves. She is married to her husband Edward
LaGrassa and has two children, Alex and Hunter.
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