Majora Carter

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Majora Carter (born October 27, 1966) is an African-American environmental justice advocate and economic consultant from the South Bronx area of New York City. Carter founded the non-profit environmental justice organization Sustainable South Bronx before entering the private sector. Carter attended primary schools in the South Bronx. After attending the Bronx High School of Science, she entered Wesleyan University in 1984 to study acting and film and 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. As associate director of the community development corporation, Carter advocated for 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 helped secure a $10,000 grant from a New York City Parks Department program to provide seed money for projects in the Bronx. Working with other community groups and the Parks Department, over a five-year period she helped leverage that seed money into more than $3 million from the mayor’s budget to build the park. In August 2001, after an unsuccessful campaign for City Council, Carter founded Sustainable South Bronx (SSBx), where she

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