page_title: Majora Carter
section_title: Awards and honors
hierarchical_section_title: Majora Carter / Career / Awards and honors
caption_attribution_description: English: PHOTO CREDIT: ANDERS KRUSBERG / PEABODY AWARDS L to R: Fred Young (juror), Marge Ostroushko, Majora Carter, Mary Beth Kircher and Emily Botein, with the Peabody Award for The Promised Land, 70th Annual Peabody Awards Luncheon Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, May 23, 2011
context_page_description: Majora Carter is an American urban revitalization strategist and public radio host from the South Bronx area of New York City. Carter founded and led the non-profit environmental justice solutions corporation Sustainable South Bronx from 2001 onward, before entering the private sector in 2008.
context_section_description: 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
  2013 Honorary PhD: Wesleyan University
  2011 Commencement speaker at Knox College
  2010 Peabody Award for The Promised Land
  2010 Star Award: International Interior Design Association (IIDA)
  2009 Fellow: Post Carbon Institute
  2009 Honor Award: Visionary in Sustainability, by the National Building Museum
  2008 Named a "visionary" as one of Utne Reader magazine's "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing the World"
  2008 Appointed to America's Climate Choices: Panel on Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change: National Academy of Sciences
  2008 Liberty Medal for Lifetime Achievement: The New York Post
  2008 The Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Medal: Eleanor Roosevelt Society
  2008 Hollister Award: United Nations Temple of Understanding
  2008 Paul Wellstone Award: Campaign for America's Future
  2007 Rachel Carson Award: National Audubon Society
  2007 New York State Women of Excellence Award: Lt. Gov. David Paterson
  2007 Honorary PhD: Mercy College
  2007 Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Community Service: NYU
  2007 Lawrence Enersen Award: National Arbor Day Society
  2005 Fellow: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
  2002 Union Square Award: Fund for the City of New York
  She is a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities.
caption: Marge Ostroushko, Majora Carter, Mary Beth Kircher and Emily Botein with award for The Promised Land at the 70th Annual Peabody Awards
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