Urban Revitalization Strategist
Majora Carter is a leading urban revitalization strategy consultant, real estate developer, and Peabody Award winning broadcaster.
She is responsible for the creation & implementation of numerous green-infrastructure projects, policies, and job training & placement systems. Her work is characterized by an emphasis on talent-retention on the corporate and community levels. Clients include industry leaders in many fields, municipal and federal government agencies and leading educational institutions across the U.S.
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.
After establishing Sustainable South Bronx and Green For All, she opened a private consulting firm to help spread the message and success of social enterprise and economic development in low-status communities, which was named Best for the World by B-Corp.
Carter is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, and an advisory board member of the Bronx Academy of Software Engineering High School.
Her long list of awards and honorary degrees include accolades from groups as diverse as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, John Podesta’s Center for American Progress, Goldman Sachs, as well as a MacArthur “genius” Fellowship.
She is a BusinessInsider.com ‘Silicon Alley 100', one of Goldman-Sachs ‘100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs’, and her 2006 TEDtalk was one of six to launch that groundbreaking site.