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 born in South Bronx, New York where she attended the Head Start Program and primary schools.
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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.
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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 voice over host of "Water Blues - Green Solutions", a one-hour 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 the "maker spaces" found elsewhere today.
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In 2013, Majora Carter joined the Advisory Board member of the Bronx Academy of Software Engineering High School.
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Majora Carter then took StartUp Box to victory at the national Blogher Conference in 2015, winning the pitch contest with $250,000 worth of in-kind services from SheKnows Media.
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Majora Carter is a co-founder of the Bronx Tech Meetup, which includes 700+ members.
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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.