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Founder of Sustainable South Bronx, Majora Carter

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BIO

Majora Carter is the Executive Director and Founder of Sustainable South Bronx (SSB). Prior to founding SSB, Majora worked as a program director at The Point CDC, where among other projects, she spearheaded the development of the Hunts Point Riverside Park, the first waterfront park on the Hunts Point peninsula in over sixty years.

Majora went on to write a successful proposal for $1.25M in Federal planning funds for the South Bronx Greenway Feasibility Study. This study would be a community led plan for a bicycle/pedestrian greenway along the South Bronx waterfront. This greenway would provide open space, waterfront access and opportunities for mixed-use economic development in the South Bronx.

Recent projects include, a green and cool roof demonstration project above the SSB office in the American Bank Note Building, and the B.E.S.T. ecological restoration job training and placement program.

Majora is a life long resident of Hunts Point in the South Bronx, a graduate of PS 48, IS 74, the Bronx High School of Science, Wesleyan University (BA) and New York University (MFA). She is a 2005 MacArthur Fellow, 2002 Open Society Institute Community Fellow.