Majora Carter was born in the South Bronx in 1966.
From 2001 to 2008 she was executive director of the non-profit she founded, Sustainable South Bronx, where she pioneered green-collar job training and placement systems in one of the most environmentally and economically challenged parts of the US.
This MacArthur "genius" is now president of her own economic consulting firm, a co-host on Sundance Channel's The Green, and host of a new public radio series, The Promised Land.
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