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Majora Carter – President

Majora is producer and host of the Peabody Award winning  public radio series, The Promised Land – heard on over 120 station across America, and serves on the Boards of  the US Green Building Council and The Wilderness Society. 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. This MacArthur “genius” is now president of her own economic consulting firm.
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Melissa Dougherty -Special Advisor, New Ventures

Melissa is a seasoned entrepreneur who has grown commercial ventures from the ground up. Over the course of her 20+ year career, she has worked in the US, Europe and South America. Following the successful completion of her last business, she organized volunteers in the Silicon Valley for the Obama campaign. In her work with MCG, Melissa helps us translate our pioneering ideas into viable businesses and  projects, capable of driving lasting environmental and social change.

James Chase – VP of Marketing and Communications

Following over a decade in NYC’s cable TV and advertising industries, James started volunteering as Communications Director for Sustainable South Bronx (SSBx) in 2003, eventually coming on board full time. By applying effective messaging to the organization’s groundbreaking work in the field of green-collar job training, development, and policy, James has helped move the profile of urban environmental matters into the fore-front of the climate and built-environment debate.

Ivette LaGuerre – Office Coordinator

Born in Brooklyn, NY, her parents are from Puerto Rico and came to New York with their three other children to make a better life. Since the 80’s, Ivette has lived and worked in the community, raising a family, graduating from the Manhattan Business School, specializing in Administrative Assistance. She knows that she is in the right place to teach future generations that they can make their communities healthier and happier as a part of the Majora Carter Group, LLC.

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We create an environment where all dreams can thrive. Based on our research in the South Bronx and other findings from cities and universities worldwide, MCG offers pioneering solutions to concentrated environmental problems that are grounded in a progressive economic development approach.

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Majora recently spoke at the Clinton Global Initiative's panel on sustainable infrastructure about the MCG's work with Brad Pitt's Make it Right Foundation.

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