Midtown Detroit, Inc. is the outcome of the recent merger of two community development organizations that have overseen a tremendous amount of investment and development activities in the Midtown and New Center areas of Detroit. The University Cultural Center Association & New Center Council & have served their respective area’s for over 30 years advocating for change, designing and implementing infrastructure, economic development programs and more. Midtown Detroit, Inc. a non-profit 501(3)c organization works to create a vibrant, walkable, economically stable urban center through guiding development, enhancing public awareness, encouraging re-investment and celebrating the cultural aspects of the Midtown community. Through integrated partnerships with core neighborhood partners and organization members Midtown Detroit, Inc. recently launched the Woodward Corridor Initiative (WCI) funded through Living Cities, a consortium of 22 foundations. This is a comprehensive corridor development strategy that seeks to create substantive economic opportunity for low-income residents in the adjoining Midtown and North End neighborhoods. The Initiative’s vision is to fuse the various projects and collaborations into one cohesive project that links data to problem solving, residents to assets, children to high-quality education, people to environment, employees to neighborhoods, businesses to demand, and ultimately citizens to a re-imagined future for the City of Detroit. My role in this initiative is to monitor, manage, and keep all of the related activities moving. I am passionate about community development, and I specifically have a heart for the revitalization of the urban core of the City of Detroit.
| Job Title: |
Program Manager of the Woodward Corridor Initiative |
| Company: |
Midtown Detroit, Inc. |
| College: |
University of Michigan, School of Architecture, Ann Arbor, MI
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| High School: |
International Academy, Bloomfield Hills, MI
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