Carter featured as one of 25 women to know at Majic
April 2, 2014
Post Carbon Fellow Majora Carter was featured in this article on education as a gamechanger.
From the article:
Growing up in the South Bronx is what drove Majora Carter away from her neighborhood when she was able to leave, but it’s also what brought her back. Carter made education her first priority so that she could move away however she got a financial reality check after enrolling in grad school, which forced her to move back in with her parents…
The MacArthur Genius Fellow is credited with swaying the Giuliani in the direction of positive economic development, founding the non-profit environmental justice solutions corporation, Sustainable South Bronx (SSBx), and writing a $1.25M Federal Transportation planning grant for the South Bronx Greenway among many other achievements but one of her latest projects resulted from a serendipitous moment that brings her life’s work full circle…