1. Majora Carter was born on October 27,1966 and is an American urban revitalization strategist and public radio host from the South Bronx area of New York City.
17 Facts About Majora Carter
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Majora Carter was a co-founder of the Bronx River Alliance, and SSBx continued to carry on Majora Carter's involvement in Bronx River waterfront restoration projects.
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In 2007, Majora Carter co-founded Green for All with Van Jones.
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Majora Carter was a torch-bearer for a portion of the San Francisco leg of the torch relay of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
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Majora Carter's TED talk was one of the first six publicly released talks to launch the TED website in 2006.
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Majora Carter gave a second TED talk in 2022, making her the only Black woman who is not an entertainer to be invited to their stage twice.
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Majora Carter has made appearances in, written, and produced television and radio programs, including HBO's The Black List: Volume 2, American Public Media's Market Place, and PRX's This I Believe series and has hosted several pieces on urban sustainability with Discovery Communications' Science Channel.
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Majora Carter has been featured in corporate promotional videos and advertisements for companies such as Cisco Systems, Frito-Lay, Intel, Holiday Inn, HSBC, Visa, Mazda and Honda.
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In 2014, Majora Carter was the on-camera and voiceover host of "Water Blues - Green Solutions", a documentary on Green Infrastructure in several American cities, produced by Pennsylvania State University TV for the Public TV Market.
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In 2015, Majora Carter played "TSA Agent 1" opposite Meryl Streep in Ricky and the Flash, directed by Johnathon Demme.
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From 2007 to 2010, Majora Carter co-hosted on The Green, a television segment dedicated to the environment, shown on the Sundance Channel.
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Majora Carter co-authored a white paper on urban heat island mitigation and a peer-reviewed article, Elemental carbon and PM levels in an urban community heavily impacted by truck traffic.
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Sustainable South Bronx, an organization Majora Carter founded, opposed FreshDirect's move to the Bronx.
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In 2007, while running Sustainable South Bronx, Majora Carter introduced MIT's first ever Mobile fab lab to the South Bronx, where it served as an early iteration of a maker spaces.
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In 2013, Majora Carter joined the advisory board of the Bronx Academy of Software Engineering High School.
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Majora Carter served as a judge for the NYC Office of Digital Media's "Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge".
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Majora Carter is a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities.