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Majora Carter

Born

Bronx, New York

Website

http://www.majoracartergroup.com

Genre

Business, Nonfiction

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Majora Carter is a real estate developer, urban revitalization strategy consultant, MacArthur Fellow and Peabody Award winning broadcaster. She is responsible for the creation and successful implementation of numerous economic developments, technology & green-infrastructure projects, policies and job training & placement systems, and is currently serving as Senior Program Director for Community Regeneration at Groundswell, Inc.

Carter applies her corporate consulting practice focused on talent-retention to reducing Brain Drain in American low-status communities. She has firsthand experience pioneering sustainable economic development in one of America's most storied low-status communities: the South Bronx.

She and her teams develop vision, s Majora Carter is a real estate developer, urban revitalization strategy consultant, MacArthur Fellow and Peabody Award winning broadcaster. She is responsible for the creation and successful implementation of numerous economic developments, technology & green-infrastructure projects, policies and job training & placement systems, and is currently serving as Senior Program Director for Community Regeneration at Groundswell, Inc.

Carter applies her corporate consulting practice focused on talent-retention to reducing Brain Drain in American low-status communities. She has firsthand experience pioneering sustainable economic development in one of America's most storied low-status communities: the South Bronx.

She and her teams develop vision, strategies and the type of development that transforms low-status communities into thriving mixed-use local economies. Her approach harnesses capital flows resulting from American re-urbanization to help increase wealth building opportunities across demographics left out of all historic financial tide changes. Majora's work produces long term fiscal benefits for governments, residents, and private real estate developments throughout North America.

In 2017, she launched the Boogie Down Grind, a Hip Hop themed speciality coffee & craft beer spot, and the first commercial “3rd Space” in the Hunts Point section

of the South Bronx since the mid-1980s. This venture also provides a rare opportunity for local families to invest through SEC approved online investment platforms.

Majora is quoted on the walls of the Smithsonian Museum of African-American History and Culture in DC:

"Nobody should have to move out of their neighborhood to live in a better one”.

Her ability to shepherd projects through seemingly conflicted socio-economic currents has garnered her 8 honorary PhD's and awards such as: 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs, Silicon Alley 100 by Business Insider, Liberty Medal for Lifetime Achievement by News Corp, and other honors from the National Building Museum, International Interior Design Association, Center for American Progress, as well as her TEDtalk (one of six to launch that site in 2006).

She has served on the boards of the US Green Building Council, Ceres, The Wilderness Society, and the Andrew Goodman Foundation.

Majora was born, raised and continues to live in the South Bronx. She is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science (1984), Wesleyan University (1988 BA, Distinguished Alum) and New York University (MFA). After establishing Sustainable South Bronx (2001) and Green For All (2007), among other organizations, she opened this private consulting firm (2008) - which was named Best for the World by B-Corp in 2014.

While at Sustainable South Bronx, Carter deployed MIT’s first ever Mobile Fab-Lab (digital fabrication laboratory) to the South Bronx - where it served as an early iteration of the “Maker-Spaces” found elsewhere today. The project drew residents and visitors together for guided and creative collaborations.

In addition, Majora Carter launched StartUp Box, a ground-breaking tech social enterprise that provided entry-level tech jobs in the South Bronx, operating it from 2014-2018. Majora Carter has helped connect tech industry pioneers such as Etsy, Gust, FreshDirect, Google, and Cisco to diverse communities at all levels.
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	The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century by Dickson D. Despommier, Majora Carter (Foreword) 3.67 avg rating — 769 ratings — published 2010 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One 3.73 avg rating — 157 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Earthcare: An Anthology in Environmental Ethics by David Clowney (editor), Patricia Mosto (Editor), Spencer Abraham (Contributor) 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Just like in every other community, ambitious, talented people are born in low-status communities. Our research indicates that people in low-status communities have hopes, dreams, and aspirations for their lives. Unfortunately, many people feel they can experience these hopes, dreams, and aspirations only outside of their community”
― Majora Carter, Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One

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“Some of you out there either have or will experience this type of negativity from those you least expect: your own peers. It is very disturbing at the time it happens, but I promise you, it becomes less and less so as you just keep doing the work. My advice to you is don't respond in kind and don't take it personally. those who don't speak up are likely fearful of things that have nothing to do with you.”
― Majora Carter, Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One

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“Preserving poverty and calling it "culture" assumes that people remaining in a low-status community will never be successful and that they are the only "authentic" representatives of those areas. If they are successful, it indicates that they don't really belong there or are somehow "inauthentic.”
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