Majora Carter

After graduating from the Bronx High School of Science,{{cite web |url=http://www.pblcty.com/event/1653/the-bronx-high-school-of-science-gala |title=Valerie Reidy, Jeff Greenfield, Majora Carter, Steve Harvey, Valerie Smaldone, El Doctorow, Helen Setzer, Jon Favreau, Elizabeth Tam, Dominic Chianese, Nita Lowey, John Liu - The Bronx High School Of Science Gala |access-date=February 17, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102204142/http://www.pblcty.com/event/1653/the-bronx-high-school-of-science-gala |archive-date=November 2, 2013 |url-status=usurped}} Carter entered Wesleyan University in 1984 to study film and went on to obtain a Bachelor of Arts.{{cite news |first=Amy |last=Waldman |title=Public lives; a dreamer, working for beauty in the South Bronx |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9407E7DC163EF936A2575BC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=August 15, 2001 |access-date=January 3, 2009}} In 1997, she received a Master of Fine Arts from New York University (NYU).{{cite web |url=http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1076861/apps/nl/content2.asp?content_id={DD826DBF-DAE6-4730-A35C-8AA6FF8AF3DE}¬oc=1 |title=Current fellows index (fellows 2005 overview) |access-date=January 3, 2009 |date=September 2005 |publisher=The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090225122400/http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1076861/apps/nl/content2.asp?content_id=%7BDD826DBF-DAE6-4730-A35C-8AA6FF8AF3DE%7D¬oc=1 |archive-date=February 25, 2009}} While at NYU, she returned to her family's home in Hunts Point.

In August 2001, after declining to engage in a campaign for NY City Council, Carter founded Sustainable South Bronx (SSBx), where she served as executive director until July 2008.Theodore J. Kim, Legal Counsel, OEJ/OECA [http://www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/newsletters/ej/ejnews/ejnews-mar13-2007.pdf Memorandum Re: "Environmental Justice in the News" for the Week Ending March 16, 2007] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719103555/http://www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/newsletters/ej/ejnews/ejnews-mar13-2007.pdf|date=July 19, 2008}}, Environmental Protection Agency, March 15, 2007. Accessed online January 5, 2009.[http://cmep.nyu.edu/portraits/performers.html NYU Portraits], Center for Multicultural and Education Programs, NYU. Accessed online January 5, 2009. During that time, SSBx advocated the development of the Hunts Point Riverside Park which had been an illegal garbage dump.{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/ny_local/2006/09/18/2006-09-18_bronx_river_group_fetes_new_.html |title=Bronx River Group Fetes New Park |newspaper=New York Daily News |date=September 18, 2006 |author=Bill Egbert |access-date=April 4, 2009}}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}} Carter was a co-founder of the Bronx River Alliance,{{cite web |url=http://www.bronx.com/mobile/news/environment/1694.html |title=The Bronx Times - Bronx River Alliance Turns 10 |access-date=February 17, 2017}} and SSBx continued to carry on Carter's involvement in Bronx River waterfront restoration projects. In 2003, Sustainable South Bronx started the Bronx Environmental Stewardship Training program,{{cite news |first=J. Edward |last=Mendez |title=Bronx goes green: program trains workers for cleanup |url=http://www.citylimits.org/content/articles/viewarticle.cfm?article_id=1898 |publisher=City Limits |date=April 24, 2006 |access-date=January 3, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009135951/http://www.citylimits.org/content/articles/viewarticle.cfm?article_id=1898 |archive-date=October 9, 2007}}{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090316075745/http://www.greenforall.org/resources/sustainable-south-bronx-green-jobs-not-jails Sustainable South Bronx: Green Jobs, Not Jails]}} Green for All. Accessed online January 5, 2009. one of the nation's first urban green collar training and placement systems.{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2007-12-12-green-jobs_N.htm |newspaper=USA Today |title=Cities cultivate 2 types of green |date=December 13, 2007 |author=Marisol Bello |access-date=April 4, 2009}} Other SSBx projects have centered around fitness, the creation of a community market, and air quality.

In 2007, Carter co-founded Green for All with Van Jones.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/nyregion/thecity/14majo.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 |title=The Green Power Broker |last=Holloway |first=Marguerite |date=December 14, 2008 |work=The New York Times}} A December 2008 New York Times profile called Carter "The Green Power Broker" and "one of the city's best-known advocates for environmental justice" but reported that some South Bronx activists (who would not go on record) stated that Carter has taken credit for accomplishments when others should share the credit as well as taking credit for uncompleted projects. Other Bronx activists (who did agree to be named) stated that her recognition was well deserved.{{cite news |first=Marguerite |last=Holloway |title=The green power broker |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/nyregion/thecity/14majo.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&adxnnl=1&ref=nyregion |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 12, 2008 |access-date=January 3, 2009}}

Carter was a torch-bearer for a portion of the San Francisco leg of the torch relay of the 2008 Summer Olympics. Many portions of the torch relay, including the San Francisco leg, were met with protests concerning the policies of the Chinese government toward Tibet. Although Carter had signed a contract pledging not to use an Olympic venue for political or religious causes,{{cite news |title=Carrying the Olympic Torch, and Protesting It, Too |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/nyregion/11carter.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=majora%20carter&st=cse |work=The New York Times |first=John |last=Eligon |date=April 11, 2008 |access-date=May 12, 2010}} when she and John Caldera were passed the torch during their part of the relay, she pulled out a small Tibetan flag that she had concealed in her shirt sleeve.{{cite news |title=South Bronx woman pulls flag from sleeve, surprises San Fran cops at Olympic tribute |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/04/10/2008-04-10_south_bronx_woman_pulls_flag_from_sleeve.html |location=New York |work=Daily News |date=April 9, 2008}}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

Members of the Chinese torch security escort team pulled her out of the relay and San Francisco police officers pushed her into the crowd on the side of the street.{{cite news |title=Olympic torch bearer from Bronx in Tibet protest |newspaper=New York Daily News |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/04/10/2008-04-10_olympic_torch_bearer_from_bronx_in_tibet.html |author=Sou Youn & Bill Hutchinson |date=April 10, 2008 |access-date=January 3, 2009}} Fellow torch-bearer and retired NYFD firefighter Richard Doran called Carter's actions "disgusting and appalling" and said that he thought "she dishonored herself and her family".{{cite news |title=China protester is torched by critics |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/04/11/2008-04-11_china_protester_is_torched_by_critics.html |location=New York |work=Daily News |first1=Soo |last1=Youn |first2=Bill |last2=Hutchinson |date=April 11, 2008}} Another torch-bearer, retired NYPD police officer Jim Dolan, agreed with Doran.

Majora Carter's TED talk{{Citation |last=Carter |first=Majora |title=Greening the ghetto |url=http://www.ted.com/talks/majora_carter_s_tale_of_urban_renewal.html |language=en |access-date=April 10, 2018}} was one of the first six publicly released talks{{cite web |url=https://www.ted.com/playlists/168/the_first_6_ted_talks_ever |title=The first 6 TED Talks |access-date=February 17, 2017}} to launch the TED website in 2006.{{cite web |url=https://www.ted.com/speakers/majora_carter |title=Majora Carter - Speaker - TED.com |first=Majora |last=Carter |access-date=February 17, 2017}} Carter gave a second TED talk in 2022,{{Citation |last=Carter |first=Majora |title=Majora Carter: You don't have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one |date=2022-09-21 |url=https://www.ted.com/talks/majora_carter_you_don_t_have_to_leave_your_neighborhood_to_live_in_a_better_one |access-date=2024-03-02}} making her the only Black woman who is not an entertainer to be invited to their stage twice.{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}} Carter has made appearances in, written, and produced television and radio programs, including HBO's The Black List: Volume 2,{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2009/02/26/2009-02-26_on_hbos_the_black_list_tyler_perry_td_ja.html |title=On HBO's 'The Black List,' Tyler Perry, T.D. Jakes and others tell their stories |author=David Hinckley |newspaper=New York Daily News |date=February 26, 2009 |access-date=April 19, 2009}} American Public Media's Market Place,{{cite web |url=http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/11/14/consumed5_pm_2/ |title=Invest in a 'green-collar' future |publisher=American Public Media |date=November 14, 2007 |access-date=April 19, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820161040/http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/11/14/consumed5_pm_2 |archive-date=August 20, 2008}} and PRX's This I Believe series{{cite web |url=http://www.prx.org/pieces/33408-this-i-believe-majora-carter |title=This I Believe - Majora Carter |publisher=Public Radio Exchange |access-date=January 13, 2010}} and has hosted several pieces on urban sustainability with Discovery Communications' Science Channel.{{cite web |url=http://science.discovery.com/videos/brains-of-science-majora-carter-extended-interview.html |title=Brains of Science: Majora Carter Extended Interview |publisher=The Discovery Channel |date=September 19, 2008 |access-date=January 13, 2010}}

She has been featured in corporate promotional videos and advertisements for companies such as Cisco Systems,{{cite web |url=http://together.cisco.com/#/view/intro |title=Digital Transformation fueled by the Internet of Everything - Welcome to Cisco |access-date=February 17, 2017 |archive-date=April 25, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130425054927/http://together.cisco.com/#/view/intro |url-status=dead }} Frito-Lay,{{cite web |url=http://colorlines.com/archives/2009/02/majora_carter_goes_primetime.html |title=Majora Carter goes Primetime |date=February 24, 2009 |access-date=February 17, 2017}} Intel, Holiday Inn,{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFQgCSbSREk |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/TFQgCSbSREk |archive-date=December 21, 2021 |url-status=live |title=Holiday Inn Majora |website=YouTube |access-date=February 17, 2017}}{{cbignore}} HSBC,{{cite web |url=https://vimeo.com/118731965 |title=HSBC - Thank You - Majora Carter |website=Vimeo |date=February 4, 2015 |access-date=February 17, 2017}} Visa,{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5fd6pSAAIA |title=YouTube |website=YouTube |access-date=February 17, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218093639/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5fd6pSAAIA |archive-date=February 18, 2017 |url-status=dead}} Mazda{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udoqz_kGak4 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/udoqz_kGak4 |archive-date=December 21, 2021 |url-status=live |title=Conviction, Creativity, Courage, - The Majora Carter Way |last=Mazda of Lakewood |date=August 8, 2013 |access-date=February 17, 2017 |via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} and Honda.{{cite web |url=http://dreams.honda.com/# |title=American Honda Motor Co., Inc. - Official Site |access-date=February 17, 2017}}

In 2014, Carter was the on-camera and voiceover host of "Water Blues - Green Solutions",{{Cite web |url=http://waterblues.org/explore/stories |title=Water Blues, Green Solutions / Explore Stories |website=waterblues.org |language=en |access-date=June 8, 2018}} a documentary on Green Infrastructure in several American cities, produced by Pennsylvania State University TV for the Public TV Market. In 2015, Carter played "TSA Agent 1" opposite Meryl Streep in Ricky and the Flash, directed by Johnathon Demme.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/478098/Ricki-and-the-Flash/cast |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325115443/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/478098/Ricki-and-the-Flash/cast |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 25, 2016 |title=Review: 'Ricki and the Flash' Puts Meryl Streep Behind a Telecaster |first=A. O. |last=Scott |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author-link=A. O. Scott |date=2016 |access-date=February 17, 2017}}

From 2007 to 2010, Carter co-hosted on The Green, a television segment dedicated to the environment, shown on the Sundance Channel.[http://www.sundancechannel.com/thegreen/#/aboutTheGreen:hosts The Green on Sundance Channel.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070622222201/http://www.sundancechannel.com/thegreen/ |date=June 22, 2007}} Accessed online June 17, 2007 The first season consisted of a series of 90 second op-eds shot in studio.{{cite web |url=http://www.kidsturncentral.com/topics/tvmovies/sundance.htm |title=Sundance Channel's The Green Presented by Robert Redford |access-date=January 13, 2010}} The second season consisted of a series of short interview pieces with individuals taking uncommon approaches to environmental problems.{{cite web |url=http://world-wire.com/news/0902260001.html |title=Sundance Channel's The Green Grows in its Historic Third Season |date=February 26, 2009 |author=Laura Michalchyshyn |publisher=world-wire.com |access-date=January 13, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100326115322/http://world-wire.com/news/0902260001.html |archive-date=March 26, 2010}}

In 2008, Carter and Marge Ostroushko{{cite web |url=http://www.peabody.uga.edu/winners/details.php?id=1222 |title=The Peabody Awards |access-date=January 13, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611025006/http://www.peabody.uga.edu/winners/details.php?id=1222 |archive-date=June 11, 2010}} co-produced the pilot episode of the public radio show, The Promised Land (radio), which won a 3-way competition for a Corporation for Public Broadcasting Talent Quest grant.{{cite news |first=Karen |last=Everhart |title=R&D boost for new voices |url=http://www.current.org/radio/radio0812talentquest.shtml |publisher=Current |date=July 14, 2008 |access-date=January 3, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090112045234/http://www.current.org/radio/radio0812talentquest.shtml |archive-date=January 12, 2009}} The one-hour programs debuted on over 150 public radio stations across the US on January 19, 2009, was renewed for the 2010/2011 season,{{cite web |url=http://thepromisedland.org/ |title=The Promised Land |access-date=January 13, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090917182844/http://thepromisedland.org/ |archive-date=September 17, 2009}} and earned a 2010 Peabody Award,{{cite web |url=http://peabodyawards.com/past-winners/award/?pbaward=1573&pb_search=1&pb_title=&pb_year=&pb_porg=&pb_query=promised%20land |title=Peabody Award |website=The Promised Land Radio |access-date=December 14, 2012 |archive-date=September 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916163956/http://peabodyawards.com/past-winners/award/?pbaward=1573&pb_search=1&pb_title=&pb_year=&pb_porg=&pb_query=promised%20land |url-status=dead }} but went unsupported by the public radio funding organizations after that period, and has since stopped production.

Carter co-authored a white paper on urban heat island mitigation{{Cite web |url=http://csud.ei.columbia.edu/sitefiles/file/SSBx_UHI_Mit_Can_Improve_NYC_Enviro[1].pdf |title=Urban Heat Island Mitigation Can Improve New York City's Environment |date=April 15, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415121758/http://csud.ei.columbia.edu/sitefiles/file/SSBx_UHI_Mit_Can_Improve_NYC_Enviro%5B1%5D.pdf |archive-date=April 15, 2012 |access-date=April 10, 2018}} and a peer-reviewed article, Elemental carbon and PM(2.5) levels in an urban community heavily impacted by truck traffic.{{Cite journal |last1=Lena |first1=T Suvendrini |last2=Ochieng |first2=Victor |last3=Carter |first3=Majora |last4=Holguín-Veras |first4=José |last5=Kinney |first5=Patrick L |date=2002 |title=Elemental carbon and PM (2.5) levels in an urban community heavily impacted by truck traffic |journal=Environmental Health Perspectives |volume=110 |issue=10 |pages=1009–1015 |pmc=1241027 |pmid=12361926 |doi=10.1289/ehp.021101009}}

In February 2022 Penguin Random House released Ms. Carter's first book, Reclaiming Your Community: You Don't Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One published by Berret-Koehler Publishers.

After leaving Sustainable South Bronx, Carter has served as president of a private consulting firm, Majora Carter Group, LLC (MCG). In the June 2010 issue of Fast Company magazine, Carter was listed as one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business.{{cite web |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/3018774/most-creative-people-2010/59-majora-carter |title=59. Majora Carter |first=Chuck Salter 05 22 10 4:32 |last=PM |date=May 22, 2010 |access-date=February 17, 2017}} In 2014, B Corporation (certification) recognized MCG as one of the "Best for the World"{{cite web |url=http://bestfortheworld.bcorporation.net/2014-best-for-the-world-overall-honorees.html |title=2014 Best for the World Overall Honorees |access-date=February 17, 2017}} according to its ranking among other B Corps of similar size.

In 2012, Carter's consulting firm, Majora Carter Group LLC (MCG) accepted FreshDirect as a client to help the company connect to local organizations prior to its proposed relocation to the Harlem River Yards in the South Bronx.DNAinfo{{cite web |url=http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20121001/hunts-point/freshdirect-hires-majora-carter-round-up-local-support-for-bronx-move#ixzz2892UdmyD |title=DNAInfor.com Article: FreshDirect Hires Majora Carter to Round Up Local Support for Bronx Move |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140521031949/http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20121001/hunts-point/freshdirect-hires-majora-carter-round-up-local-support-for-bronx-move#ixzz2892UdmyD |archive-date=May 21, 2014}}

Activists opposed to the relocation claimed New York City Government and FreshDirect failed to conduct sufficient environmental review and community outreach.{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/freshdirect-hires-green-activist-article-1.1172407#ixzz289J5S800 |title=FreshDirect hires environmental activist Majora Carter to aid in relocation bid |author=Daniel Beekman |date=October 1, 2012 |newspaper=Daily News (New York) |access-date=October 1, 2012}} A lawsuit and boycott campaign{{cite web |url=http://motthavenherald.com/2012/09/28/freshdirect-hires-majora-carter/ |title=FreshDirect hires Majora Carter: Company opponents denounce 'turncoat' |author=Bernard L. Stein |date=September 28, 2012 |publisher=Mott Haven Herald |access-date=October 1, 2012}} were initiated to stop the relocation. That lawsuit was dismissed,{{cite web |url=http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20130603/PROFESSIONAL_SERVICES/130609985 |author=Annie Karni |title=FreshDirect foes lose in court |publisher=Crain's New York |date=June 3, 2013 |access-date=June 3, 2013}} and a subsequent appeal was also dismissed; both were filed by New York Lawyers for the Public Interest.{{cite web |url=http://www.bxtimes.com/stories/2014/14/13-fresh-2014-03-27-bx_2014_14.html |title=BREAKING: Court appeal to stop FreshDirect move to South Bronx thrown out |date=March 27, 2014 |access-date=February 17, 2017}} Sustainable South Bronx, an organization Carter founded, opposed FreshDirect's move to the Bronx.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/nyregion/a-hero-of-the-bronx-majora-carter-is-now-accused-of-betraying-it.html |title=Hero of the Bronx Is Now Accused of Betraying It |author=Winnie Hu |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 4, 2013 |access-date=April 6, 2013}}

Subsequent votes by Bronx Community Board 1{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/bronx-board-approves-fresh-direct-move-port-morris-article-1.1396378 |title=Bronx community board approves controversial Fresh Direct plan for Port Morris as residents scream and board members object |author=Denis Slattery |newspaper=The New York Daily News |date=July 11, 2013 |access-date=July 11, 2013}} and the NYC Industrial Development Agency{{cite web |url=http://blog.tstc.org/2013/07/23/despite-community-opposition-nyc-industrial-development-agency-votes-to-allow-fresh-direct-relocation-to-the-south-bronx/ |title=Despite Community Opposition, NYC Industrial Development Agency Votes to Allow Fresh Direct Relocation to the South Bronx |website=Mobilizing the Region|date=July 23, 2013 }} both voted to approve the move to the Bronx.

The project broke ground December 22, 2014, and was scheduled to be completed before the end of 2016.{{cite web |url=http://bronxboropres.nyc.gov/press/releases/2014-12-22.html |title=FreshDirect Breaks Ground on New South Bronx Facility |publisher=Bronx Boro President's Office |access-date=June 27, 2015 |archive-date=June 30, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630004923/http://bronxboropres.nyc.gov/press/releases/2014-12-22.html |url-status=dead }} FreshDirect started hiring in the Bronx ahead of its move in anticipation.{{cite web |url=http://bronx.news12.com/news/freshdirect-hiring-for-new-bronx-headquarters-1.10167124 |title=FreshDirect hiring for new Bronx headquarters |access-date=February 17, 2017}} Consistent with activists' concerns over increased truck traffic as a result of the new FreshDirect facility, a study found that the opening the FreshDirect warehouse "significantly increased truck and vehicle flow, especially for overnight time windows, and that for one traffic monitoring site, resulting changes were not adequately predicted by the facility’s environmental assessment prior to construction."{{Cite journal |last1=Shearston |first1=Jenni A. |last2=Johnson |first2=A. Mychal |last3=Domingo-Relloso |first3=Arce |last4=Kioumourtzoglou |first4=Marianthi-Anna |last5=Hernández |first5=Diana |last6=Ross |first6=James |last7=Chillrud |first7=Steven N. |last8=Hilpert |first8=Markus |date=May 2020 |title=Opening a Large Delivery Service Warehouse in the South Bronx: Impacts on Traffic, Air Pollution, and Noise |journal=International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health |volume=17 |issue=9 |page=3208 |doi=10.3390/ijerph17093208 |issn=1661-7827 |pmc=7246477 |pmid=32380726 |doi-access=free}}

In 2007, while running Sustainable South Bronx, Majora Carter introduced MIT's first ever Mobile fab lab (digital fabrication laboratory) to the South Bronx, where it served as an early iteration of a maker spaces.

In 2013, Carter joined the advisory board of the Bronx Academy of Software Engineering High School. After co-founding StartUp Box #SouthBronx{{Cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/majora-carter-partners-plan-open-tech-startup-incubator-education-center-hunts-point-bronx-article-1.1097947 |title=Majora Carter and partners plan to open tech startup incubator and education center in Hunts Point, Bronx - NY Daily News |last=Beekman |first=Daniel |work=nydailynews.com |access-date=June 8, 2018 |language=en-US}} in 2012 as a social enterprise to seed diverse participation in the knowledge economy, she launched StartUp Box #QA,{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.wired.com/2014/11/urban-onshoring/ |title=Urban Onshoring: The Movement to Bring Tech Jobs Back to America |magazine=WIRED |access-date=June 8, 2018 |language=en-US}} a quality assurance testing service, which assisted in the launch of Mayor Bill DeBlasio's Digital.NYC{{Cite news |url=http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/463-14/mayor-de-blasio-digital-nyc-first-ever-all-inclusive-online-hub-the-city-s-tech#/0 |title=Mayor de Blasio Unveils Digital.NYC |work=The official website of the City of New York |access-date=June 8, 2018}} in 2014. StartUp Box to victory won the pitch contest at the national Blogher Conference in 2015 with $250,000 worth of in-kind services from SheKnows Media.{{cite web |url=http://www.blogher.com/how-majora-carter-brought-down-house-pitch |title=How Majora Carter Brought Down the House at The Pitch - SheKnows |access-date=February 17, 2017 |archive-date=February 18, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218070057/http://www.blogher.com/how-majora-carter-brought-down-house-pitch |url-status=dead }}

The social enterprise also won second place in the MIT Inclusion Innovation and the Village Capital & Kapoor Capital People Ops Competitions in 2016 (each garnering a $25,000 prize), as well as the Digital Diversity Network's Code Breaker Award in 2016.{{cite web |url=https://digitaldiversitynetwork.com/innovation-inclusion-awards-honorees/ |title=Innovation & Inclusion Awards Honorees – Digital Diversity Network |website=digitaldiversitynetwork.com |access-date=February 25, 2018 |archive-date=March 31, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331061258/https://digitaldiversitynetwork.com/innovation-inclusion-awards-honorees/ |url-status=dead }}

She is a BusinessInsider.com 'Silicon Alley 100',{{Cite news |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/sa-100-2012?op=1 |title=THE SILICON ALLEY 100: The Coolest People In New York Tech This Year |work=Business Insider |access-date=June 8, 2018 |language=en}} and her 2006 TEDtalk was one of 6 on the launch of its website.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ted.com/pages/great_moments_in_tedtalks |title=TED Talks |website=www.ted.com |language=en |access-date=June 8, 2018}} Carter is also a co-founder of the Bronx Tech Meetup.{{Cite news |url=http://www.meetup.com/bronxtechmeetup |title=BronxTechMeetup (Bronx, NY) |work=Meetup |access-date=June 8, 2018 |language=en}} She served as a judge for the NYC Office of Digital Media's "Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge".{{Cite web |url=http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0/index.jsp?pageID=mayor_press_release&catID=1194&doc_name=http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/html/2012b/pr457-12.html&cc=unused1978&rc=1194&ndi=1 |title=NYC.gov - NYC.gov Mission Statement |website=www.nyc.gov |access-date=June 8, 2018 |archive-date=March 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328010743/http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0/index.jsp?pageID=mayor_press_release&catID=1194&doc_name=http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/html/2012b/pr457-12.html&cc=unused1978&rc=1194&ndi=1 |url-status=dead }}

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• 2024 Commendation for Outstanding Teaching, Princeton University{{Cite web |title=Princeton Engineering - Faculty commended for outstanding teaching |url=https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2024/03/26/faculty-commended-outstanding-teaching-5 |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=Princeton Engineering |language=en-US}}
• 2020 Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Award {{Cite web |title=Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Awards |url=https://philadelphiacfa.org/pages/edmund-n-bacon-urban-design-awards |access-date=2022-12-03 |website=Center for Architecture and Design |language=en}}
• 2017 Visionary Leadership Award - Arts & Ideas {{Cite web |title=Visionary Leadership Award Recipients |url=https://www.artidea.org/vlarecipients |access-date=2022-12-03 |website=International Festival of Arts and Ideas |language=en}}
• 2016 MIT Inclusion Innovation Competition – Finalist
• 2016 Digital Diversity Network – Innovation & Inclusion Awards Honoree
• 2015 Blogher 2015 – Winner: Pitch Contest for StartUp Box Quality Assurance B2B Social Enterprise
• 2014 Augsburg College – Honorary PhD
• 2013 Middlebury College CSE Vision Award[http://mcse.middlebury.edu/archives/vision-award/ Vision Award | Center for Social Entrepreneurship]. Middlebury.edu (August 13, 2015). Retrieved on 2015-08-13.
• 2013 Honorary PhD: Wesleyan University{{cite web |url=http://wesconnect.wesleyan.edu/s/1318/hybrid/index.aspx?gid=1&pgid=2994&crid=0 |title=Whedon '87, Carter '88, Dresser '63 receive honorary degrees |access-date=February 17, 2017}}
• 2011 Commencement speaker at Knox College{{cite web |url=http://www.knox.edu/news-and-events/news-archive/eco-entrepreneur-to-speak-at-2011-knox-college-commencement.html |title=Eco-entrepreneur to Speak at Knox College Commencement | Knox College |access-date=March 12, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110317001748/http://www.knox.edu/news-and-events/news-archive/eco-entrepreneur-to-speak-at-2011-knox-college-commencement.html |archive-date=March 17, 2011}}
• 2010 Peabody Award for The Promised Land[http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/the-promised-land-with-host-majora-carter 70th Annual Peabody Awards], May 2011.
• 2010 Star Award: International Interior Design Association (IIDA){{cite web |url=http://www.iida.org/content.cfm/star-award |title=Star Award |access-date=February 17, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218065122/http://www.iida.org/content.cfm/star-award |archive-date=February 18, 2017}}
• 2009 Fellow: Post Carbon Institute{{cite web |url=http://www.postcarbon.org |title=Home Page |access-date=February 17, 2017}}
• 2009 Honor Award: Visionary in Sustainability, by the National Building Museum{{cite web |url=http://www.nbm.org/support-us/awards_honors/honor-award/a-salute-to-visionaries-sustainability.html |title=A Salute to Visionaries in Sustainability |author=National Building Museum |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110305110217/http://www.nbm.org/support-us/awards_honors/honor-award/a-salute-to-visionaries-sustainability.html |archive-date=March 5, 2011}}
• 2008 Named a "visionary" as one of Utne Reader magazine's "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing the World"{{cite web |url=http://www.utne.com/2008-11-13/50-Visionaries-Who-Are-Changing-Your-World.aspx |title=50 Visionaries who are changing your world |access-date=February 17, 2017}}
• 2008 Appointed to America's Climate Choices: Panel on Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change: National Academy of Sciences{{cite web |url=http://www8.nationalacademies.org/cp/CommitteeView.aspx?key=49008 |title=Project: America's Climate Choices: Panel on Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change (COMPLETED) |website=www8.nationalacademies.org}}
• 2008 The Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Medal: Eleanor Roosevelt Society{{cite web |url=http://www.ervk.org/html/medal2008.html |title=2008 Honorees |access-date=January 3, 2009 |publisher=Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081229101340/http://www.ervk.org/html/medal2008.html |archive-date=December 29, 2008}}
• 2008 Hollister Award: United Nations Temple of Understanding{{cite web |url=http://www.templeofunderstanding.org/wwd_2008_awards.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100203112732/http://www.templeofunderstanding.org/wwd_2008_awards.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 3, 2010 |title=The Temple of Understanding 10th Annual Juliet Hollister Awards |access-date=January 3, 2009 |publisher=The Temple of Understanding}}
• 2008 Paul Wellstone Award: Campaign for America's Future{{cite web |url=http://www.ourfuture.org/video/tba-2008-paul-wellstone-award |title=TBA 2008 - Paul Wellstone Award |access-date=January 3, 2009 |date=March 19, 2008 |publisher=Campaign for America's Future |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081129060315/http://ourfuture.org/video/tba-2008-paul-wellstone-award |archive-date=November 29, 2008}}
• 2007 Rachel Carson Award: National Audubon Society{{cite web |url=http://www.audubon.org/news/press_releases/0507-Women_in_Conservation_05_22_07.html |title=The National Audubon Society 2007 Women in Conservation Luncheon |access-date=January 3, 2009 |last=Barton |first=Erica |publisher=The National Audubon Society |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081130103232/http://www.audubon.org/news/press_releases/0507-Women_in_Conservation_05_22_07.html |archive-date=November 30, 2008}}
• 2007 New York State Women of Excellence Award: Lt. Gov. David Paterson{{cite web |url=http://www.state.ny.us/governor/press/0323071.html |title=Lieutenant Governor David A. Paterson honors Women's History Month |access-date=January 3, 2009 |date=March 23, 2007 |publisher=New York State Executive Chamber |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080125113147/http://www.state.ny.us/governor/press/0323071.html |archive-date=January 25, 2008}}
• 2007 Honorary PhD: Mercy College{{cite web |url=http://www.mercy.edu/media/article.cfm?article=190 |title=Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism to speak at first of two commencement ceremonies |publisher=Mercy College |date=May 15, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008234028/http://www.mercy.edu/media/article.cfm?article=190 |archive-date=October 8, 2007}}
• 2007 Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Community Service: NYU[http://www.nyu.edu/student.affairs/pdfs/SA2006-07%20Annual%20Report.pdf NYU Division of Student Affairs Annual Report], September 1, 2006 – August 31, 2007, New York University, p. 4. Accessed online January 5, 2009.
• 2007 Lawrence Enersen Award: National Arbor Day Society{{cite web |url=http://www.arborday.org/programs/Awards/2007/index.cfm?award=enersen |title=2007 National Arbor Day Awards: Lawrence Enersen Award |access-date=January 3, 2009 |publisher=Arbor Day Foundation}}
• 2005 Fellow: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
• 2002 Union Square Award: Fund for the City of New York{{cite web |url=http://www.fcny.org/scripts/usq/getpage02.pl?orgid=0220 |title=Sustainable South Bronx | Union Square Awards - FCNY |access-date=January 9, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070914154746/http://www.fcny.org/scripts/usq/getpage02.pl?orgid=0220 |archive-date=September 14, 2007}}{{cite web |url=http://www.majoracartergroup.com/our-story/bios/awards/ |title=Awards |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100929072806/http://www.majoracartergroup.com/our-story/bios/awards/ |archive-date=September 29, 2010 |url-status=dead |access-date=October 12, 2010}}

She is a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities.

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• [http://www.majoracartergroup.com/ The Majora Carter Group]
• [http://www.thepromisedland.org/ The Promised Land Hosted By Majora Carter]
• {{TED speaker}}
• [https://www.makers.com/profiles/591f28b3bea1777480421738 Majora Carter] Video produced by Makers: Women Who Make America
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR3FH-Z8Pg4/ Majora Carter interviewed on Conversations from Penn State]

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