(CNN) -- "You don't have to move out of your neighborhood to live in a better one," says Majora Carter.
It's a philosophy the environmental justice campaigner has embraced wholeheartedly in her adult life, transforming the neighborhood she was so desperate to escape as a child.
Her attempts to extricate herself from the polluted, crime-ridden streets of Hunts Point in New York City's South Bronx were initially successful. Good grades at high school earned her a place at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
But when she returned to New York to start a master's degree she was broke, leaving her little option but to return to live with her parents.
"I didn't want to be here. I thought it was really ugly. I thought people didn't care," she said. "But it occurred to me that if I wasn't doing something about it, then why would anybody."
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