Majora Carter

environmentalist

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. She is now president of her own economic consulting firm, a co-host on Sundance Channel's *The Green*, and host of a new special public radio series called, *The Promised Land*.