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Profile: Majora Carter founder and president Majora Carter Group
Majora Carter
Majora Carter, is founder and president of the Majora Carter Group, a private, for-profit “green” economic consulting firm.
In 2001, after successfully shifting the Mayor Rudy Giuliani administration’s plans from more municipal waste handling to positive economic development, she founded the non-profit environmental justice solutions corporation, Sustainable South Bronx (SSBx).
Ms. Carter’s first major project was writing a US$1.25 million Federal Transportation planning grant for the South Bronx Greenway with 11 miles of alternative transport, local economic development, low-impact storm-water management, and recreational space. This led to the first new South Bronx water front park in over 60 years.
Ms.Carter was ranked number 59 on Fast Company magazine’s list of the 100 Most Creative People in Business 2010.
She is a 2006 MacArthur “genius” Fellow, one of Essence Magazine’s 25 most influential African-Americans…