Majora Carter, founder of Sustainable South Bronx, will present a lecture titled "Green the Ghetto - Why, How and What Happens if We Don't," on Tuesday, Nov. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the Hamilton College Chapel. The lecture, which is sponsored by the Diversity and Social Justice Project, is free and open to the public.
Born and raised in the South Bronx, it is Carter's philosophy that people shouldn't have to move out of their neighborhood to live in a better one. With this idea in mind, Carter founded the non-profit environmental justice corporation Sustainable South Bronx in 2001. Her first project was drafting a $1.25 million federal transportation planning grant for the South Bronx Greenway, which eventually led to the first new South Bronx waterfront park in more than 60 years. Carter also worked to alleviate poverty via the Bronx Environmental Stewardship Training program, a division of Sustainable South Bronx. The training program is one of the nation's first and most effective green-collar job training and placement systems.
Carter's work has been noted in many books, as well as celebrated with awards from the National Audubon Society, The Environmental Protection Agency and the National Resources Defense Council. She is a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, one of Essence Magazine's 25 Most Influential African Americans in 2007, one of the NY Post's Most Influential NYC Women for both of the last two years, and a board member of The Wilderness Society.
Born and raised in the South Bronx, it is Carter's philosophy that people shouldn't have to move out of their neighborhood to live in a better one. With this idea in mind, Carter founded the non-profit environmental justice corporation Sustainable South Bronx in 2001. Her first project was drafting a $1.25 million federal transportation planning grant for the South Bronx Greenway, which eventually led to the first new South Bronx waterfront park in more than 60 years. Carter also worked to alleviate poverty via the Bronx Environmental Stewardship Training program, a division of Sustainable South Bronx. The training program is one of the nation's first and most effective green-collar job training and placement systems.
Carter's work has been noted in many books, as well as celebrated with awards from the National Audubon Society, The Environmental Protection Agency and the National Resources Defense Council. She is a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, one of Essence Magazine's 25 Most Influential African Americans in 2007, one of the NY Post's Most Influential NYC Women for both of the last two years, and a board member of The Wilderness Society.
