“A Conversation with Majora Carter”

Event time: 
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 - 4:00pm
Location: 
Hastings Hall, Paul Rudolph Hall; School of Architecture See map
180 York St.
Event description: 
“A Conversation with Majora Carter”
Revitalization strategy consultant, real estate developer, and Peabody Award-winning broadcaster
 

About the Speaker

Majora Carter founded Sustainable South Bronx in 2001 — when very few people were even talking about “sustainability,” and even fewer in places like the South Bronx. By 2003, she coined the term “Green the Ghetto” as she pioneered one of the nation’s first urban green-collar job training and placement systems. Her organization spearheaded new policies and legislation that fueled demand for those jobs, improved the lives of New Yorkers, and served as a model for the nation.

Majora’s 2006 TEDtalk was one of the first six presentations to launch that groundbreaking website. Since 2008, her consulting company has been exporting climate adaptation, urban micro-agribusiness, and leadership development strategies for business, state and local governments, federal agencies, foundations, universities, and economically underperforming communities.

She is probably the only person to receive an award from John Podesta’s Center for American Progress, and a Liberty Medal for Lifetime Achievement from Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post. Fast Company magazine listed her as one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business; The New York Times described her as “The Green Power Broker”; and the Ashoka Foundation’s Changemakers.org recently dubbed Majora “The Prophet of Local.” Majora is the host of the public radio series The Promised Land, and has earned a long list of awards and honorary degrees, including a MacArthur “genius” fellowship.