Majora Carter, host of public radio's The Promised Land, believes that you shouldn't have to move out of your neighborhood to live in a better one, and that this notion has environmental and economic implications that span the globe.

She is founder of Sustainable South Bronx (SSBx), a nonprofit community organization established in 2001 to advance the environmental and economic rebirth of her hometown. With Van Jones, she co-founded Green For All to promote a national green-collar job agenda. The Majora Carter Group, her consulting firm, builds relationships between organizations and across sectors to remediate environmental pollution. Carter, a sought-after speaker, was named one of Essence magazine's "25 most influential African-Americans" and one of Newsweek's "25 to Watch." She is co-host of The Green on the Sundance Channel and a board member of the Wilderness Society. In 2005, she was awarded the MacArthur "genius" grant. Other honors include New York University's Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award, the Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Medal, and the Lewis Rudin Award for Public Service. Majora Carter holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and an M.F.A. from New York University.