Author Talk: Reclaiming Your Community: You Don't Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Have a Better One with Majora Carter
Join us for a Green Series author talk and conversation with Majora Carter, author of Reclaiming Your Community : You Don't Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to have a Better One.
Majora will discuss her work supporting homegrown economic development in the South Bronx.
How can we solve the problem of persistent poverty in low-status communities? Majora argues that these areas need a talent-retention strategy, just like the ones companies have. Retaining homegrown talent is a critical part of creating a strong local economy that can resist gentrification. But too many people born in low-status communities measure their success by how far away from them they can get.
Carter, who could have been one of them, returned to the South Bronx and devised a development strategy rooted in the conviction that these communities have the resources within themselves to succeed
Majora Carter is a MacArthur Fellow, Peabody Award winning broadcaster, and has 7 honorary PhDs in addition to accolades from organizations as diverse as the Center for American Progress, News Corp, the Eleanor Roosevelt Society, Goldman Sachs, BusinessInsider, and the Municipal Arts Society among many many others.
She has served on the Boards of the US Green Building Council, The Andrew Goodman Foundation, Solar One, and The Wilderness Society.
She is quoted on the Walls of Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture: "You don't have to move out of your neighborhood to live in a better one." which is also the subtitle of her new book, Reclaiming Your Community.
She is a real estate developer & consultant who still lives in the South Bronx neighborhood where she grew up and is also the owner of the Boogie Down Grind - which was named Best Cafe in NYC by TimeOut NY and won an AlFresco NY Award for excellence in outdoor seating in 2021.
Registration is required. Masks are highly encouraged in Greenpoint library.
Our partner WORD bookstore will sell books at this event.
Join us for a Green Series author talk and conversation with Majora Carter, author of Reclaiming Your Community : You Don't Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to have a Better One.
Majora will discuss her work supporting homegrown economic development in the South Bronx.
How can we solve the problem of persistent poverty in low-status communities? Majora argues that these areas need a talent-retention strategy, just like the ones companies have. Retaining homegrown talent is a critical part of creating a strong local economy that can resist gentrification. But too many people born in low-status communities measure their success by how far away from them they can get.
Carter, who could have been one of them, returned to the South Bronx and devised a development strategy rooted in the conviction that these communities have the resources within themselves to succeed
Majora Carter is a MacArthur Fellow, Peabody Award winning broadcaster, and has 7 honorary PhDs in addition to accolades from organizations as diverse as the Center for American Progress, News Corp, the Eleanor Roosevelt Society, Goldman Sachs, BusinessInsider, and the Municipal Arts Society among many many others.
She has served on the Boards of the US Green Building Council, The Andrew Goodman Foundation, Solar One, and The Wilderness Society.
She is quoted on the Walls of Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture: "You don't have to move out of your neighborhood to live in a better one." which is also the subtitle of her new book, Reclaiming Your Community.
She is a real estate developer & consultant who still lives in the South Bronx neighborhood where she grew up and is also the owner of the Boogie Down Grind - which was named Best Cafe in NYC by TimeOut NY and won an AlFresco NY Award for excellence in outdoor seating in 2021.
Registration is required. Masks are highly encouraged in Greenpoint library.
Our partner WORD bookstore will sell books at this event.
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