At The Round Table with Majora Carter, Episode 7
Reclaim Your Community: Creating a Flourishing Ecosystem from Within
The Round Table Dialogue Series Episode 7 : Majora Carter
Join Lori Hanau & Majora Carter for a conversation about community and employee retention and what it takes to reclaim and rebuild vibrant, healthy communities.
"My musical, In the Heights, explores issues of community, gentrification, identity, and home--not to mention this question: are happy endings only ones that involve getting out of your neighborhood to achieve your dreams? In her refreshing new book, [Reclaiming Community], Majora Carter writes about these issues with great insight and clarity, asking us to reexamine our notions of what community development is and how we invest in the futures of our hometowns. This is an exciting conversation worth joining." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
What does it mean to be “rooted in community?” What can successful employee retention strategies teach us about community retention and vice versa? How do we slow down the brain drain that cripples local economic progress for Black & Non-Black People of Color? Why did Majora become a real estate developer within her community in the South Bronx?
“Think of the way companies work to retain the talent they hire….At our core, we want to feel appreciated and acknowledged, whether in a corporation or in a community. If we don’t get that recognition, we seek it elsewhere.” - Majora Carter, “Reclaiming Community, You Don't Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One.”
For the seventh episode of Round Table Dialogue, we’re speaking with our dear partner and friend, Majora Carter, for a conversation called: Reclaim Your Community & Build Healthy Ecosystems Within.
📌 Thursday, September 20th, 2023
📌 12:00 - 1:00 PM EST
Together, Lori and Majora will discuss the following:
The practices of contributive justice and how to retain and attract communities to stay, even when it’s hard
The principles and pillars of sharing leadership & how we create more wholeness, synergy, and growth when we share
How to use healthy employee retention models as models for community building & community retention
Reclaiming and rebuilding communities of vibrancy, health, and meaning
How our local communities evolve and change, and how we adapt together
We hope you will join us for this very timely conversation and share about the work Majora and her team are leading in the South Bronx, including at her new cafe called Boogie Down Grind Cafe. Learn more about Majora Carter and the powerful story of reclaiming community through Boogie Down Grind in this video: NYC Overcoming: The Boogie Down Grind
Read more about Majora’s book “Reclaiming Community, You Don't Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One.” Purchase it here
About Major Carter
Majora Carter is a real estate developer, urban revitalization strategy consultant, MacArthur Fellow, Peabody Award-winning broadcaster, and owner of the Boogie Down Grind Cafe in the Bronx. She's responsible for the creation of numerous economic development, technology inclusion & green-infrastructure projects, policies, and job training & placement systems. She is also a lecturer at Princeton University's Keller Center.
Majora is quoted on the walls of the Smithsonian Museum of African-American History and Culture in DC: "Nobody should have to move out of their neighborhood to live in a better one” - which is also the subtitle of her 2022 book, Reclaiming Your Community.
Carter applies corporate talent-retention consulting practice to reduce Brain Drain in American low-status communities. She has firsthand experience pioneering sustainable economic development in one of America's most storied low-status communities: the South Bronx, as well as cities across North America and abroad.