Green Infrastructure and Poverty - Majora Carter to Visit UMD - 9/30

How can a cleaner, greener infrastructure move people out of poverty? MacArthur and Peabody Award-winning urban revitalization strategist Majora Carter will share her powerful message.

Majora Carter has set new standards of excellence with projects in her South Bronx community, while expanding her reach through philanthropic pursuits and business interests that have contributed to raising the self-esteem and unleashing the economic potential of low-income people everywhere.

Majora Carter: Home(town) Security

Wednesday, September 30

5:00 p.m.

Colony Ballroom | Adele H. Stamp Student Union

Lecture followed by Q&A and a reception.

Please join us for the first event in the College Park Scholars “Trash Talks” series. The series is part of this year’s Scholars theme, Trash: The Problem of Waste in Our Lives and World. For details and updates, go to blog.umd.edu/ScholarsTalksTrash

Thanks to the Office of Undergraduate Studies for its support of the trash theme and related events. Thanks to MLaw Programs for support of Majora Carter’s lecture.