Carter Craft is long-time Hoboken resident, where he has raised his three children with his wife, Stephanie. They have all been active in church, school, and community activities since moving here in 2004. 

Professionally, Carter is an urban planner with more than twenty-five years of experience on and in the waterfronts and waterways of New Jersey and NYC. Over his career, Carter has functioned as a catalyst, leader, team-builder, director, and project manager for a wide range of public and private organizations. Carter is an active boater, operating the small launch REEL BUSY out of the Shipyard Marina for more than 10 years. Since 2006, Carter has been on the Board of the Hoboken Cove Community Boathouse. In this role he has been an advocate for free public use and enjoyment of the Hudson River, an advisor on dealing the present NY Waterway ferry operation as well as the promised future "Maritime park," and a liaison with City Parks Department staff and workers who keep things moving.  He serves as the Church Council Chair at the Community Church of Hoboken, located at 6th and Garden Street, where is also known as the "church gardener."

Since co-founding the project that grew into the Waterfront Alliance beginning in 1998, Carter has been instrumental in the establishment and growth of some of the leading organizations working on/ along New York Harbor. These include the Billion Oyster Project, New York Harbor School, Newtown Creek Alliance, the River Project, Working Harbor Committee, Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club, and many others. He served the New York Harbor School and Harbor Foundation in a variety of roles, one of which was as the chief strategist behind the School’s successful effort to raise money and secure additional building sites on the island including $30 million in Capital funds for the renovation of two buildings.

In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, Carter worked with the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in New York to bring Dutch know-how in developing rebuilding strategies for coastal, urban and other aquatic environments in New Jersey, New York State, and New York City. Out of these discussions the “Rebuild By Design,” collaboration came to life. The long-term goal for this project was to help create sustainable frameworks for future collaboration between multiple stakeholders from academic, business, community and government groups in the Netherlands and in Greater New York. Twelve years later Rebuild By Design is still making positive change across many vulnerable and impacted communities. Thanks, in part, to Carter's leadership in the community and his collaborative effort to work with the Zimmer Administration, the Rebuild By Design project in Hoboken was awarded the largest grant in the state of New Jersey from the Federal government as part of the RBD program. Now there are some eggs getting broken, so the work is still ongoing. 

Additionally, Carter has been extensively involved in a number of programs educating the public in planning for, and using, the waterfront. He created the Waterfront and Wetlands Planning mini-course for the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute (now in its 14th year), as well as leading courses at Fordham University. He graduated from New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service with a Masters of Urban Planning in 1998, and from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1993 with a B.A. in Economics. Carter currently works as a Senior Economic Policy Officer at the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in New York under their Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In this role he is responsible for sharing best practices in the areas of water, energy, and the built environment.