Urban Revitalization Strategist
Majora Carter is an environmental advocate and leading urban revitalization strategist. She is the founder and executive director of Sustainable South Bronx, an organization with the goal of “greening” the south side of the Bronx borough of New York City, where she was raised. Her vision calls for strategically replacing asphalt with parks, bikeways and green roofs to improve the local environment and combat global warming.
A graduate of Wesleyan University and New York University, as well as the Bronx High School of Science, Carter became the project director for The Point Community Development Corporation in her home community of Hunts Point while working on her Master’s degree in film studies. In 2001, she founded Sustainable South Bronx, a non-profit environmental justice organization that strives to alleviate poverty and public health problems through project-based initiatives that both strengthen the local economy and improve the environment.
Carter is also a co-founder of GreenforAll.org, which aims to move people out of poverty through job training for the emerging "green collar" workforce. And she has been a co-host on Robert Redford’s Sundance Channel television series on the environment, "The Green". In the course of her career, she has been honored with various awards including the 2007 NYU Martin Luther King, Jr. Humanitarian Award and a 2005 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship “genius grant.”
