Majora Carter
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Majora Carter (born ) is the Executive Director/Founder of [Sustainable South Bronx] (SSB).
Majora Carter received a B.A. (1988) from Wesleyan University and an M.F.A. (1997) from New York University. Carter served as project director (1997-98) and associate director of community development (1998-2001) for The Point Community Development Corporation, working on youth development and community revitalization in Hunts Point. She founded Sustainable South Bronx in 2001 and serves as its executive director.
After completing her MFA, Carter returned to her native Hunts Point where she sought to deepen the emphasis on the arts in the South Bronx. It wasn’t long, however, before she was engaged in battle over New York City’s plan for a solid waste management plant to process 40 percent of the city’s garbage at a facility on the Hunts Point waterfront. Successfully diverting this plan, SSB and other groups went further, embarking on projects that built a park on the site of a former concrete plant, enabled public waterfront access where the shore was once littered with industrial scrap, developed an ecological restoration workforce to protect and maintain the natural environment, and raised funds to conduct a feasibility study for the establishment of a bike/pedestrian greenway along the waterfront. Making the connection between green space and health, Carter added a community education focus to the work of the SSB around fitness, food choices, and air quality. As part of this effort, she established a community market and introduced green roof technology. In so doing, Majora Carter has helped to profoundly transform the quality of life for South Bronx residents.
She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2005.
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