Thoughts on Reclaiming Your Community with Majora Carter

Greetings Glocal Citizens!

This week in our continuing Glocal Citizens x Black Women in Real Estate and Green For All, and in 2017 opened the Boogie Down Grind — a hip-hop-themed coffee and craft beer spot, the first commercial "third space" in Hunts Point since the mid-1980s. Her 2022 book, Reclaiming Your Community: You Don't Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One, argues that communities thrive when they retain talent and investment rather than losing both to brain drain — a line from the book is now quoted on the walls of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

This conversation was truly a treat as trip down memory lane to my early career working across the five boroughs in New York City. I have watched an admired Majora’s economic development acuman since visiting Sustainable South Bronx in the early 2000’s as I was getting my start managing and tech-focused industry development project at the New York City Economic Development Corporation. It speaks to the spirit of this BWRE collaboration bringing together Black women in the real estate sector showcasing the personal and professional journeys and highlight how Black women in the industry invest and structure value in/around land/property across global markets and so much more.

Where to find Majora?

On LinkedIn
On Instagram
On Facebook
On YouTube

What’s Majora reading?
All the Shah’s Men by Stephen Kinzer

Other topics of interest:
Hunts Point, Bronx
Coro Fellowship
The Burning Bronx
US Green Building Council
Meet Winona Leduke
About the White Earth Reservation
Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise Podcast
Where were America’s Black Wall Streets
What is Birch Coffee) all about?
Cass Gilbert, Architect
Bronxlandia