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About Our 2007 KIW Gala Keynote Speaker

Majora Carter
Sustainable South Bronx
2007 KIW Gala Dinner Keynote Speaker

Prior to founding SSB, Majora worked as a program director at The Point CDC where among other projects, she spearheaded the development of the Huns Point Riverside Park, the first waterfront park on the Hunts Point peninsula in over sixty years. She then wrote a successful proposal for $1.25M in Federal planning funds for the South Bronx Greenway Feasibility Study as a community led plan for a bicycle/pedestrian greenway along the South Bronx waterfront providing open space, waterfront access, and opportunities for mixed-use economic development in the South Bronx. Recent projects include a green and cool roof demonstration project above the SSB office in the American Bank Note Building and the B.E.S.T. ecological restoration and job training program. Majora is a life long resident of Hunts Point in the South Bronx, a graduate of PS 48, IS 74, the Bronx High School of Science, Wesleyan University (BA), and New York University (MFA). She is a 2005 MacArthur Fellow, 2002 Open Society Institute Community Fellow.

For more information on Majora Carter and Sustainable South Bronx, visit http://www.ssbx.org. To read an interview of Majora Carter on Grist.org, click here.

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