Majora Carter
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Majora Carter founded Sustainable South Bronx (SSBx), non-profit environmental justice organization, in August 2001 and served as executive director until July 2008. During that time, SSBx advocated for the development of the Hunt's Point Riverside Park which had been an illegal garbage dump. SSBx has also been involved in other restoration projects on the Bronx River waterfront. In 2003, Sustainable South Bronx started the Bronx Environmental Stewardship Training program. This was one of the nation's first urban green collar training and placement systems. Other SSBx projects have centered around fitness, food choices (including the creation of a community market), and air quality. A December 2008 New York Times profile called Carter "one of the city’s best-known advocates for environmental justice."
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