Molly Carter
By Jacob Sabolo, Conversations: Fall 2018
It’s the 2018 Academy Awards. Cast members from “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” are presenting the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film. Mark Hamill announces Kobe Bryant’s “Dear Basketball” as the winner. Bryant takes the stage with only seconds to speak. While he’s giving his speech, Bryant says, “Thank you, Molly Carter. Without you we wouldn’t be here.”
Before she was thanked by the former Los Angeles Laker, before she was taking selfies with her husband on the red carpet and before she built her impressive career, Molly Carter’s (CMN ’96) story began at DePaul.
President KOBE Inc.
Carter says she always wanted to be a Blue Demon. Her father, Austin Flynn, was the dean of the College of Education in the 1970s. After he passed away when she was very young, DePaul provided Carter and her brother, Tim Ring (CMN ’91), with scholarships to attend the university. It was at DePaul where Carter decided to go into sports public relations.
Carter has worked with the Chicago Bulls, the Chicago White Sox, the Atlanta Hawks, Nike, Converse and Gatorade, among others. She started working at Kobe Inc. in 2015.
“What I like about working for Kobe [Inc.] is we don’t do anything that’s been done before. I think that’s consistent with the projects I’ve chosen to fight for throughout my career,” Carter says.
