Majora Carter
| Majora Carter | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 27, 1966 South Bronx, New York, United States |
| Residence | South Bronx, NY |
| Nationality | USA |
| Education |
Bronx High School of Science |
| Occupation | Real Estate Developer, Public Radio Host and Economic Diversity Advocate |
| Title | President, Majora Carter Group, LLC |
| Website | http://www.majoracartergroup.com/ |
Bronx High School of Science
Wesleyan University
Majora Carter (born October 27, 1966) is an American urban revitalization strategist and public radio host from the South Bronx area of New York City. Carter founded and led the non-profit environmental justice solutions corporation Sustainable South Bronx from 2001 onward, before entering the private sector in 2008.
Carter was born in South Bronx, New York where she attended the Head Start Program and primary schools. After graduating from the Bronx High School of Science, she entered Wesleyan University in 1984 to study film and went on to obtain a Bachelor of Arts. In 1997, she received a Master of Fine Arts from New York University (NYU). While at NYU, she returned to her family's home in Hunts Point, and later worked for The Point Community Development Corporation.
While Associate Director of The Point Community Development Corporation, Carter initiated the development of Hunts Point Riverside Park. Carter was "pulled by her dog into a weedy vacant lot strewn with trash at the dead end of Lafayette Avenue. As the pair plowed through the site they ended up, much to Carter’s surprise, on the banks of the Bronx River."
From there, Carter secured a $10,000 grant from a USDA Forest Service program to provide seed money for river access restoration projects. Over a five-year period she worked with other community members and the Parks Department to help leverage that seed money into more than $3 million from the mayor’s budget. The money was used to build the park into the Rudy Bruner award winning iteration which re-opened in 2006.
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