Design Alliance Omaha is hosting an event featuring Majora Carter on Thursday, February 25 at the Joslyn Art Museum. Ms. Carter was born, raised and continues to live in the South Bronx. Her career has taken her around the world in pursuit of resources and ideas to improve the quality of life in environmentally challenged communities. She founded Sustainable South Bronx in 2001 after writing a $1.25M Federal Transportation grant to design the South Bronx Greenway with 11 miles of bike and pedestrian paths connecting the rivers and neighborhoods to each other, and to the rest of the city. That project secured over $20 million in funds for first phase construction and serves as alternative transportation, an economic development anchor, storm water management infrastructure as well as healthy recreation. Her accomplishments grow from the notion that self-image is influenced by surroundings—so those surroundings should be beautiful! Her vision, drive, and tenacity earned her a MacArthur “Genius” Grant. She started 2007 as one of Newsweek’s “25 To Watch”, ended the year as one of Essence Magazine’s “25 most Influential African Americans”. She has been named one of the “50 most influential women in NYC” by the NY Post for the past two years, and “NYC’s most influential environmentalist” by the BBC World Service.

daOMA Presents: Majora Carter, Environmental Advocate
Thursday, February 25, 2010
7:00 pm
Joslyn Art Museum Witherspoon Concert Hall