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As Michigan’s workforce and economy evolve, the state continues to struggle with population growth and talent retention. One Detroit’s Future of Work series unpacks the causes driving these trends and explores possible solutions. From reports on electric vehicles, equity in the workplace and artificial intelligence to interviews with key business leaders and policymakers, our Future of Work stories examine the ever-changing world of work.

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Future of work report addresses the state of small business in the Detroit area

<a href="https://detroitfuturecity.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Future City</a> released a report in May that examined the challenges and goals for small and micro-sized businesses in the Detroit region. <a href="https://detroitfuturecity.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/State-of-Micro-and-Small-Businesses-in-the-Detroit-region_May_2024.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The report</a> said 37 percent of respondents’ businesses were one to three years old. It also highlighted top challenges local small businesses face, including access to capital and navigating the cost of capital. 
Another report recently released was the <a href="https://www.sbam.org/entrepreneurship-score-card/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2024 Entrepreneurship Score Card</a> from the <a href="https://www.sbam.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Small Business Association of Michigan</a>. Key findings from the report show that while there was an increase in small business formation and technological employment, the state grapples with declining labor force participation and widening income disparities with the national average. 
One Detroit’s <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#will" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Will Glover</a> talks with <a href="https://techtowndetroit.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tech Town</a> President and CEO Ned Staebler about the health of the local small business economy.  
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Artificial intelligence has entered the workforce, but the full implications on the labor market and jobs are still to be seen. Early signs point to white collar jobs being the most impacted, which according a conversation with the <a href="https://winintelligence.org/">Workforce Intelligence Network</a> shows that more women will be impacted by generative AI during their careers than men.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}"> 
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The Workforce Intelligence Network is a collaboration between community colleges and Michigan works agencies based in Southeast Michigan. The organization covers 19 counties comprising roughly 65% of Michigan’s total workforce. Workforce Intelligence Network Senior Economic Research Analyst <a href="https://winintelligence.org/staff-members/kevin-cranick/">Kevin Cranick</a> said while there can be downsides, like job losses, from artificial intelligence, there can also be some positives, such as increased worker productivity, which may lead to more free time and new revenue streams. 
For One Detroit’s <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/future-of-work/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Future of Work series</a>, Cranick sits down with One Detroit Producer <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Will Glover</a> to discuss generative AI in the workforce. The pair talk about who may be impacted the most by generative AI and how diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives are being used by employers as a solution to maintain balance and fairness in the workplace. Cranick also shares advice for students and employees on navigating work as generative AI continues to grow.
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Artificial intelligence is here. If you’re a student or a young adult entering the workforce, how might it affect where you head in your career? How can you connect to AI jobs in the future? To explore those questions, check out this <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KKG5DrLcuSofesjg_ugaWqlu90TJGVqXq9pKi4MMTVA/edit#slide=id.g20eae2c85b8_0_2429" target="_blank" rel="noopener">companion video discussion guide</a> from our collaborative series, “<a href="https://www.mifutureofwork.org/2024/05/06/ai-collection/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AI &amp; Work &amp; You.</a>”
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Artificial intelligence’s impact on the workforce: A conversation with the Workforce Intelligence Network

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Featured photo courtesy: Mark S. Lee
The Small Business Workshop, hosted by The LEE Group, returns for its 10th year on Wednesday, May 15 at <a href="https://detroitpal.org/the-corner-ballpark/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Corner Ballpark</a>. Presented by Fifth Third Bank, <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/10th-annual-small-business-workshop-tickets-848322012977" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the sold-out event</a> is expected to draw a crowd of small business owners and entrepreneurs, industry leaders and other community advocates.
This year’s workshop theme is “Embracing Change While Moving Forward,” underscoring the challenges small businesses have faced while navigating a landscape rife with economic uncertainties. <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/american-black-journal/the-lee-group-ninth-annual-small-business-workshop/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Inflation</a>, economic uncertainty in an election year, the emergence of new technologies, and a tight labor market are among the challenges causing small businesses to adapt and adjust. 
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Attendees will be able to engage in dynamic discussions led by industry experts, entrepreneurs, and community leaders who explore practical solutions to navigate an evolving business landscape.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}"> 
Host Stephen Henderson gets details on the 10th annual Small Business Workshop from the event’s founder Mark S. Lee, President &amp; CEO of <a href="https://leegroupinnovation.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The LEE Group</a>, and Tawnya Rose, Vice President &amp; Community Impact Manager at Fifth Third Bank. Lee details the history of the event and what led him to come up with the idea a decade ago. He also talks about this year’s theme and what small business owners will take away from the event. <span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}"> 
Rose talks about Fifth Third Bank’s support for the workshop from the beginning, 10 years ago, and how the bank helps small businesses overcome issues and obstacles such as access to capital.
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2024 Small Business Workshop explores practical solutions to navigate evolving business landscape

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The University of Michigan has become the first major university in the nation to <a href="https://genai.umich.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">create its own artificial intelligence tools</a>. The project was shepherded by Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer Dr. <a href="https://president.umich.edu/leadership-team/executive-officers/ravi-pendse/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ravi Pendse</a>.  
“We have two ways of looking at it at Michigan,” he said. “One way was we could say, we’ll step back and let’s wait out and see what the world will do, and then maybe we can react. The other way was, let’s thoughtfully approach this technology and let’s lead.” 
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Generative AI continues to fuel debates over its role in education at all levels. Some educators strictly forbid its use to avoid things like plagiarism and factual inaccuracies, others like University of Michigan Associate Professor <a href="https://jurgens.people.si.umich.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Jurgens</a>, embrace the technology’s application in appropriate classroom settings.  
“As a university, we’re trying to figure out how to get students to engage with this in a productive, collaborative way, without sort of losing their critical thinking skills,” Jurgens said. One Detroit Producer <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#will">Will Glover</a> talked with Pendse, Jurgens and University of Michigan student Shantasia King about the AI tools and its impact in the classroom. 
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University of Michigan becomes first college to create AI tools for campus, students

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Located next to the iconic Ford train station in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood, <a href="https://michigancentral.com/mc_partners/newlab/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newlab at Michigan Central</a> opened its doors in April 2023 and embodies the story of revitalization and transformation in Detroit.  
Newlab was built from the skeleton of a crumbling book depository and is now home to 90 startups in a range of industries from EV off-road vehicles to smart wheels built to streamline warehouse logistics.  
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The facility helps entrepreneurs cut time off the development cycle of their products, Newlab <a href="https://www.crainsdetroit.com/technology/newlab-names-cameron-lawrence-new-ceo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CEO Cameron Lawrence</a> said. One Detroit Producer <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#will">Will Glover</a> talks with Lawrence about efforts to make Detroit a destination for technology and innovation.
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Newlab at Michigan Central helps shift technology, entrepreneurial landscape in Detroit

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The <a href="https://engineering.wayne.edu/computer-science" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wayne State University School of Computer Science</a> is working on an AI tool that may transform the way Detroiters get around the city.  
In response to a <a href="https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/civic-innovation-challenge-civic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Civic Innovation Challenge Award</a> by the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy, Dr. Dongxiao Zhu, the founding director of <a href="https://ai.wayne.edu/research.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wayne State’s AI research initiative</a>, and his team are developing an AI tool to improve public transit operations and options for Detroiters. The goal of the tool is to create the ability to update bus routes more often to increase the availability and reliability of the overall transit system. 
Among the resources used in developing the tool, the team is using foot traffic data to identify where the highest bus rider needs are within the city, aerial images to map sidewalks so they can be more easily navigated by riders after they exit a bus, and potential user generated data from an app that would be developed as part of the AI prototype.  
The <a href="https://detroitmi.gov/departments/detroit-department-transportation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Department of Transportation</a> has said it’s too early to comment on potential AI tools to enhance mobility in Detroit. One Detroit <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#will">Producer Will Glover</a> talks with Dr. Zhu, who is also the director of graduate programs in Computer Science master programs in AI, and his team about their AI for Mobility Project. 
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Wayne State University’s AI for Mobility Project seeks to improve Detroit’s public transit system

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The annual Grow Detroit’s Young Talent (GDYT) summer jobs program has returned for its 10th year, and applications for the program are now open. <a href="https://gdyt.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The program</a> matches Detroit residents ages 14-24 with employers in a wide variety of industries including manufacturing, IT, construction, entrepreneurship, and corporate work. An estimated 8,000 teens and young adults are expected to be matched up with employers this summer. <span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559685&quot;:-20,&quot;335559737&quot;:-20,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> 
The Grow Detroit’s Young Talent program was started a decade ago by the <a href="https://detroitmi.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">City of Detroit</a>, the Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation (<a href="https://descmiworks.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DESC</a>) and <a href="https://connectdetroit.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Connect Detroit</a>. During its tenure, the program has grown from serving roughly 5,000 teens and young adults in the first year to more than 8,000 in recent years. The program offers free transportation for enrolled employees through a partnership with the <a href="https://detroitmi.gov/departments/detroit-department-transportation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Department of Transportation</a>.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559685&quot;:-20,&quot;335559737&quot;:-20,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> 
As part of <a href="https://www.mifutureofwork.org/career-exploration/detroit-public-tv-launches-future-of-work-initiative-to-help-grow-michigans-workforce-and-fill-the-skills-gap-for-generations-to-come/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Public Television’s</a> <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/future-of-work/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Future of Work</a> initiative, host <a href="https://twitter.com/SHDetroit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Henderson</a> speaks with three guests connected to the GDYT program: DESC President &amp; CEO Dana Williams, Connect Detroit VP of Programs Shuna Hayward, and past GDYT participant Naeema Muhammad.
They talk about the wide range of job opportunities the young people receive, how these experiences will help them as they pursue careers and post-secondary degrees, and what it takes to pull together the employers, funders and young people each year for this massive $13 million summer jobs program.
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Grow Detroit’s Young Talent jobs program kicks off 10th year of summer employment

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A new cutting-edge research and training facility at the University of Detroit Mercy, the STAR Center, has launched to elevate the training of its nursing students. The <a href="https://healthprofessions.udmercy.edu/about/star-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Simulation, Technology and Research Center</a>, as it’s formally named, gives nursing students hands-on experience with a wide range of scenarios and environments they might find working in the medical field. 
The 5,000-square-foot facility also serves as a hub for research and innovation, where students and faculty can collaborate on new nursing projects. This comes after the university’s College of Health Professions built its first simulation center in 2010, albeit a smaller version, <a href="https://healthprofessions.udmercy.edu/about/faculty.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Interim Dean Janet Baiardi</a> said. The new facility is on the University of Detroit Mercy’s McNichol’s Campus in the <a href="https://healthprofessions.udmercy.edu/index.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College of Health Professions</a>. 
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One Detroit contributor Daijah Moss visited the university to tour the training center, delve into its innovative features and learn about its potential to enhance students’ proficiency in the medical field. She talks with Baiardi, College of Health Professions <a href="https://healthprofessions.udmercy.edu/about/faculty.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Interim Associate Dean Saran Hollier</a>, STAR Center Clinical Instructor <a href="https://healthprofessions.udmercy.edu/about/faculty.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Sheila Williamson</a>, STAR Center Assistant Dean of Prelicensure Clinical Partnerships <a href="https://healthprofessions.udmercy.edu/about/faculty.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nina Favor</a> and some of the students in the program.
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University of Detroit Mercy launches STAR Center training facility for nursing students

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While the Detroit Lions’ historic winning season has come to an end, football mania in the city isn’t over yet. The 2024 NFL Draft takes place in Detroit April 25-27. Campus Martius and Hart Plaza will be the primary sites for NFL draft activity in the city, which will include the NFL Draft Experience, the NFL’s interactive theme park.  
Hundreds of thousands of football fans are expected to visit Detroit for the draft, <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/bios/claude-molinari/#:~:text=Claude%20Molinari%20is%20President%20and,and%20the%20Detroit%20Sports%20Commission." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Visit Detroit CEO Claude Molinari</a> said. During the 2022 NFL Draft in Las Vegas, more than 300,000 fans attended events in the city and NFL draft coverage was seen by 10 million viewers, a <a href="https://www.fordfield.com/events/detail/2024-nfl-draft" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ford Field press release</a> said. With a handful of other NFL cities close to Detroit, Molinari expects attendance in the city to meet or exceed previous years.  
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Visit Detroit is also offering <a href="https://visitdetroit.com/2024nfldraft/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“On the Clock” tours</a> through April. The tours include 10 stops across seven of Detroit’s neighborhoods in an effort to boost excitement around the city’s neighborhoods leading up to draft day.  
One Detroit <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#stephen">contributor Stephen Henderson</a>, host of “<a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/category/american-black-journal/">American Black Journal</a>,” sat down with Molinari at the <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/one-detroit/growing-michigans-population-conversations-from-the-2024-detroit-policy-conference-one-detroit/">2024 Detroit Policy Conference</a> to talk about how the city plans to host one of the largest events it has undertaken recently. Plus, they talk about how tourism, city amenities and outsiders&#8217; perception of Detroit have changed over the last decade, as well as what impact the draft will have on suburban counties like Oakland and Macomb. 
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Michigan’s population is at a crossroads. Ranked 49th out of 50 states in terms of population growth, Michigan has been struggling to attract new people and retain its residents, and the implications for the state’s economy and prosperity could be dire. According to estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 43,000 people moved out of Michigan between 2020-2022. 
At the 2024 Detroit Policy Conference, business leaders and policymakers convened to tackle Michigan’s shrinking population and discuss potential solutions. Former <a href="https://www.americanambassadors.org/members/john-rakolta-jr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ambassador John Rakolta Jr.</a> and <a href="https://bog.wayne.edu/members/shirley-stancato" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shirley Stancato</a>, Wayne State University Board of Governors Member, served as chairs of the conference, which hosted conversations around the future workforce, education, creating vibrant communities, and the city of Detroit’s efforts to attract new residents.  
Ashok Sivanand moved to Detroit from Toronto in 2016 to start the digital transformation business, Integral, after visiting the city while working on a project with Ford to build an innovation lab, <a href="https://fordlabs.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FordLabs</a>. “When I came here, I realized that what we hear about Detroit and what I got to experience here are completely different,” said Sivanand. Though he’d heard recommendations about which suburbs to live in, he ultimately found himself drawn to living in the city. 
One Detroit contributor and Michigan Public Political Director, <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/bios/zoe-clark/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zoe Clark</a>, sat down with the <a href="https://integral.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Integral</a> CEO to talk about what drew him to not only work in the city but also make Detroit his home. Sivanand talks with Clark about the sense of community he found in Detroit and the opportunities to grow as a member of the community.  
“I think if there are folks who really get those dopamine hits from going out and volunteering or serving, and you’re not sure how to do it in the big cities you live&#8230;this is a great place to do it, where there’s a lot of history, and we can be part of a lot of (the) future, too,” <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/bios/ashok-sivanand/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sivanand</a> said.  
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Toronto transplant and Integral CEO Ashok Sivanand shares why Detroit became home for him and his business

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Michigan’s population is at a crossroads. Ranked 49th out of 50 states in terms of population growth, Michigan has been struggling to attract new people and retain its residents, and the implications for the state’s economy and prosperity could be dire. According to estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 43,000 people moved out of Michigan between 2020-2022. 
At the 2024 Detroit Policy Conference, business leaders and policymakers convened to tackle Michigan’s shrinking population and discuss potential solutions. Former <a href="https://www.americanambassadors.org/members/john-rakolta-jr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ambassador John Rakolta Jr.</a> and <a href="https://bog.wayne.edu/members/shirley-stancato" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shirley Stancato</a>, Wayne State University Board of Governors Member, served as chairs of the conference, which hosted conversations around the future workforce, education, creating vibrant communities, and the city of Detroit’s efforts to attract new residents.  
One Detroit contributor and American Black Journal host <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#stephen">Stephen Henderson</a> sat down with Angelique Power, <a href="https://www.skillman.org/people/__power/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President &amp; CEO of The Skillman Foundation</a>, to talk about the state of investment in education in Michigan and how that relates to growing Michigan’s population. Power was selected to participate in the PreK-12 Education workgroup of Governor Whitmer’s <a href="https://growingmichigan.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Growing Michigan Together Council</a>.  
According to Power, public education in Michigan has been underfunded for more than 20 years, and based on her participation in the council, many are saying an upgrade to the system is overdue. Power shared with Henderson that one of the <a href="https://growingmichigan.org/workgroups/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PreK-12 education workgroup</a>’s recommendations made to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in December was for a more cohesive vision for education in the state where decision-making is more centralized. 
Henderson and Power also discuss the importance of keeping opportunity and access at the forefront of education, defining equitable education systems as it relates to providing students the resources they need, and the importance of having adequate funding to implement these changes. 
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Michigan’s population is at a crossroads. Ranked 49th out of 50 states in terms of population growth, Michigan has been struggling to attract new people and retain its residents, and the implications for the state’s economy and prosperity could be dire. According to estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 43,000 people moved out of Michigan between 2020-2022. 
At the 2024 Detroit Policy Conference, business leaders and policymakers convened to tackle Michigan’s shrinking population and discuss potential solutions. Former <a href="https://www.americanambassadors.org/members/john-rakolta-jr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ambassador John Rakolta Jr.</a> and <a href="https://bog.wayne.edu/members/shirley-stancato" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shirley Stancato</a>, Wayne State University Board of Governors Member, served as chairs of the conference, which hosted conversations around the future workforce, education, creating vibrant communities, and the city of Detroit’s efforts to attract new residents.  
One Detroit <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#nolan">contributor Nolan Finley</a>, who is also <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/staff/2646740001/nolan-finley/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">e</a>ditorial page editor of the Detroit News, sat down with Rakolta, co-chairman of the <a href="https://growingmichigan.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Growing Michigan Together Council</a>, at this year’s <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/detroit-policy-conference/2024-detroit-policy-conference/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Policy Conference</a> to talk about where Michigan stands when it comes to growing its population.
They discuss the four drivers of growing the state’s population. According to Rakolta, growing Michigan’s population in the short term seems unlikely, but the state should still focus on increasing productivity and prosperity. One way to do so is by investing more in the educational quotient of the entire state and unifying labor and management in the workforce to increase the state’s readiness for embracing innovation, Rakolta said. He also talks about what it would take to implement these improvements.
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Michigan ranks second-last in U.S. population growth. Former Ambassador John Rakolta, Jr. explains why.

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The <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/detroit-policy-conference/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Regional Chamber</a> is gearing up to host the 2024 Detroit Policy Conference on January 11 at the MotorCity Casino Hotel. The annual gathering, presented by the Detroit Regional Chamber in January each year, draws hundreds of business and policy leaders. <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/detroit-policy-conference/2024-detroit-policy-conference/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">This year&#8217;s conference</a> will explore initiatives and policy strategies that could bolster the state’s population and make Michigan an alluring hub for talent and business development. 
<a href="https://www.americanambassadors.org/members/john-rakolta-jr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ambassador John Rakolta Jr.</a> and <a href="https://bog.wayne.edu/members/shirley-stancato" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shirley Stancato</a>, Wayne State University Board of Governors Member, serve as chairs of the conference. The duo was also appointed to lead the <a href="https://growingmichigan.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Growing Michigan Together Council</a>, a coalition <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s0szgNfdqs&amp;t=2s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer</a> at the 2023 Mackinac Policy Conference. Last month, the Council submitted its recommendations for enhancing Michigan’s appeal and vitality to the governor — many of which will shape discussions at this year’s conference. 
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One Detroit <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#nolan">contributor Nolan Finley</a>, the Editorial Page Editor of The Detroit News, previewed the conference&#8217;s agenda in a discussion with Detroit Regional Chamber&#8217;s <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/bios/sandy-k-baruah/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President and CEO, Sandy K. Baruah</a>. Their conversation delved into the key themes of the conference, shedding light on the pressing issues and potential solutions that will be explored by attendees.
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2024 Detroit Policy Conference to tackle Michigan’s population growth and business development

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<a href="https://canvasrebel.com/meet-rachel-liu-martindale/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rachel Liu Martindale</a>, former engineer turned entrepreneur, is getting ready to open Q Bakehouse and Market early this year. <a href="https://www.qannarbor.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Asian American bakery</a>, located on the west side of Ann Arbor, will feature a fusion of traditional Asian flavors. 
Martindale&#8217;s journey into the world of baking began in her childhood. Inspired by time spent with her grandmother watching Food Network, her passion for baking blossomed, becoming a crucial outlet for the stress of engineering school. Eventually, she began a side business bakery called <a href="https://www.clickondetroit.com/all-about-ann-arbor/2019/08/08/ann-arbor-based-milk-honey-creates-cakes-pastries-for-good-cause/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Milk and Honey</a>. 
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After running pop-up events in downtown Ann Arbor, Martindale decided to turn baking into a full-time career, and the journey from Milk and Honey to Q Bakehouse and Market began. The new venture showcases a more extensive range of Asian-inspired pastries and introduces savory options, highlighting Martindale&#8217;s Taiwanese and Chinese heritage. 
But opening a retail storefront has come with its challenges, Martindale said. She sat down with One Detroit contributor <a href="https://www.chienanyuan.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chein-An Yuan</a> to talk about what propelled her to quit her corporate job to become an entrepreneur and how she’s navigated the challenges of building her business. Plus, she shares the cultural importance and meaning behind the bakery’s name. 
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From engineering to running an Asian American bakery, Rachel Liu Martindale set to open Q Bakehouse and Market

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Nestled on the vibrant corner of Monroe and Village Drive in Dearborn, Black Box coffee stands as a testament to Michigan&#8217;s entrepreneurial spirit. It was created by the Alcodray family – retired engineer and IT leader Ray, his wife Lisa, and their daughter Sarah – Black Box, <a href="https://www.blackboxdearborn.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a coffee shop and fine art gallery</a>, has become a fixture in its community. The family’s first location opened in June 2018. In October 2020, the shop moved to its current location. 
<figure id="attachment_33675" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-33675" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-33675" src="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/One-Detroit-827-Black-Box-Coffee-Still-2.jpg" alt="Black Box coffee's Sarah Alcodray" width="650" height="366" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-33675" class="wp-caption-text">Sarah Alcodray, daughter of Ray and Lisa Alcodray, assists a customer at her family&#8217;s coffee shop and fine art gallery, Black Box in Dearborn. | Photo by One Detroit</figcaption></figure>
One Detroit <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#will">Producer Will Glover</a> sat down with the Alcodray family to delve into the origins of Black Box. They share steps for those embarking on the entrepreneurial path and what it takes to run a small business. 
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Black Box: a family-operated coffee shop and art gallery in Dearborn

​Since Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced the Growing Michigan Together Council, the state’s population stagnation and economic prosperity have been front and center for several businesses, organizations and educational institutions. Global Detroit, a regional economic development and community development organization, has been exploring the state’s population issues and the importance of immigrant inclusion in the region’s revitalization.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> 
Global Detroit <a href="https://globaldetroitmi.org/welcome-dr-alaina-jackson/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Managing Director Dr. Alaina Jackson</a> talks with “American Black Journal” host <a href="https://twitter.com/SHDetroit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Henderson</a> about Global Detroit&#8217;s mission to develop and implement inclusive strategies to drive the growth, revitalization and shared prosperity of Detroit and the region by focusing on immigrants and global talent. They discuss the importance of immigrants in growing Michigan&#8217;s economy and population, and Dr. Jackson points to the known contributions of immigrants to the region.
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Global Detroit shares the importance of immigrant inclusion in Michigan’s population revitalization

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In Michigan, <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/corrections/recidivism-rate#:~:text=For%20the%20fourth%20year%20in,within%20three%20years%20of%20release." target="_blank" rel="noopener">roughly 22%</a> of the state’s formerly incarcerated population end up back behind bars, but education can have an impact on recidivism. A study from Emory University shows that recidivism rates drop to less than 14% after earning an associate degree, down to 5.6% after earning a bachelor’s degree, and nearly 0% with a master’s degree. More opportunities for returning citizens to learn in prison became accessible in July when <a href="https://www.bop.gov/resources/news/20230712_pell_grant.jsp#:~:text=As%20of%20July%201%2C%202023,for%20jobs%20with%20livable%20wages." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federal Pell Grants became available to the incarcerated</a> again.  
“This is a gamechanger. Across the country, we could see three-quarters of a million people go back to college who are incarcerated, and those people are very unlikely to return to prison once they’re released,” <a href="https://hope.edu/directory/people/ray-richard/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Richard Ray</a>, a professor at Hope College involved with the Prison Education Program, said.
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During the 90s, harsher sentences grew the nation’s prison populations and Federal Pell Grants were eliminated for the incarcerated. Hundreds of programs vanished. Today, however, two Michigan colleges have been seeing success from their college prison initiatives, providing an education to people in prison so they’re better equipped to re-enter society.
The <a href="https://calvin.edu/prison-initiative/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Calvin Prison Initiative</a>, from Calvin University in Grand Rapids, has been running its prison education program at Handlon Correctional Facility in Ionia since 2015. Hope College and Western Theological Seminary teamed up to start its <a href="https://hope.edu/offices/hope-western-prison-education-program/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hope-Western Prison Education Program</a> in 2019, serving the inmates at the Muskegon Correctional Facility. They hope that more Michigan colleges and universities will join their efforts to educate Michigan’s prison populations. 
One Detroit <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/bios/mario-bueno/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contributor Mario Bueno</a>, who was formerly incarcerated, and <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#bill">senior producer Bill Kubota</a> teamed up to explore how these prison education programs are helping the incarcerated prepare for jobs when they’re released.  
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Federal Pell Grants for prison inmates return, opening new possibilities for prison education programs

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Michigan has been suffering from brain drain, the loss of in-state college graduates to other states after graduation, according to the <a href="https://crcmich.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Citizens Research Council of Michigan</a>. Washtenaw Community College’s <a href="https://fame-usa.com/fame-program-locations/michigan-fame/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FAME program</a> — the Michigan Federation for Advanced Manufacturing Education, a work-and-learn program between the college and advanced manufacturing employers, has been taking steps to help the state change its trajectory. There are several FAME chapters across the nation; <a href="https://www.wccnet.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washtenaw Community College</a> started the first Michigan chapter in January.  
<figure id="attachment_33344" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-33344" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-33344" src="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/One-Detroit-822-FAME-Still-3.jpg" alt="Washtenaw Community College sign" width="300" height="169" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-33344" class="wp-caption-text">A sign on Washtenaw Community College&#8217;s campus. | Photo by One Detroit</figcaption></figure>
“We know there’s, at any given time, 100,000 jobs open in Michigan. We know at any given time, Southeastern Michigan where we’re situated, has probably about 30,000 to 40,000 of those jobs,” Washtenaw Community College Vice President of Workforce Development and Community Engagement <a href="https://www.wccnet.edu/directory/tucker-brandon.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brandon Tucker</a> said. Tucker’s goal is to get more students enrolled in the FAME program and considering staying in Michigan for their careers. Part of that work starts in high school, talking with juniors and seniors about the career options available to them in the region. 
Continuing our exploration into Michigan’s population stagnation and the future of work, One Detroit <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#will" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Producer Will Glover</a> visited Washtenaw Community College’s FAME program for a look at how it’s connecting students to careers in Michigan. Glover talks with FAME student Andrew Denton about how the program has changed his life and Washtenaw Community College graduate Mike Rudisill about his career in advanced manufacturing. Plus, he talks with other students on campus who are exploring different paths, revealing a spectrum of plans – from leaving the state to pursuing careers in Michigan.
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Michigan’s battle against brain drain: Washtenaw Community College FAME program connects students to careers

In a bid to transform Black Friday from a day of shopping sprees to a day of educational empowerment, Gwen Thomas, the founder and executive director of Fresh Perspectives Seminars, is gearing up for the 10th annual Black Friday Scholarship Bootcamp on Nov. 24 in Detroit. This year, <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/event/a-conversation-with-university-of-michigan-president-santa-ono-detroit-economic-club-livestream/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the event</a> will offer four scholarships, including two $1,000 prizes, one $500 award, and one $250 grant for graduating seniors.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> 
More than just monetary rewards, the Bootcamp provides an array of resources such as coaching, ACT/SAT preparation, academic advising, and even assistance with resumes or CVs. With a track record of helping students secure over $22 million in scholarships and study abroad funding to over 100 countries, the Bootcamp is a beacon for those seeking higher education opportunities. Beyond scholarship insights, the event will feature an exciting seminar on the entertainment field, engaging attendees with celebrity entrepreneurs.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> 
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Host <a href="https://twitter.com/SHDetroit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Henderson</a> recently caught up with Thomas to discuss the unique approach of encouraging families to shop for scholarships instead of retail bargains at the mall. Additionally, they delve into federal, state, and private loans, grants, and shortcuts to navigate the FAFSA process. The day-long workshop, to be held at the prestigious <a href="https://www.detroitgolfclub.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Golf Club</a>, is not just a seminar, it&#8217;s a transformative journey offering valuable insights for high school juniors and seniors and their parents. 
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10th Annual Black Friday Scholarship Bootcamp offers educational opportunities rather than shopping sprees

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​A sobering reality persists for many students from communities of color trying to enter one of Michigan’s many higher education institutions. Often, they’re met with a myriad of challenges and barriers in the pursuit of higher education access and admission. From systemic inequities to financial constraints, these aspiring scholars often confront multifaceted hurdles that can hinder their dreams of post-secondary education.   
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In a high-impact panel discussion led by host <a href="https://twitter.com/SHDetroit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Henderson</a>, some of the state’s top experts in higher education diversity, equity, and inclusion including <a href="https://ssw.umich.edu/faculty/profiles/leo/fsalman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fatima Salman</a>, President of the <a href="https://www.nasw-michigan.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Association of Social Workers-MI</a>; <a href="https://detroitfuturecity.com/team_member/kimberly-faison/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kimberly Faison</a>, Director of Community and Economic Development at <a href="https://detroitfuturecity.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Future City</a>; and <a href="https://ticas.org/staff/onjila-odeneal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Onjila Odeneal</a>, Senior Director of Policy and Advocacy at <a href="https://ticas.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Institute for College Access &amp; Success</a> (TICAS), came together to address the issues of college access and achievement for students of color in Michigan’s higher education system.  
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Michigan’s higher education experts discuss college access, equity for communities of color

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<a href="https://blastdetroit.org/automotive-training/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Blast Detroit</a> has launched an innovative program, the EV Automotive Mobility Program, that equips Detroiters with the skills necessary for jobs that will soon be in high demand. The program offers hands-on training in the maintenance and repair of electric vehicles, as well as education in internal combustion engine technology, in an effort to bridge the gap and address the racial disparity within the electric vehicle (EV) industry. 
<a href="https://escholarship.org/content/qt0tn4m2tx/qt0tn4m2tx_noSplash_36244609f162444f3e55c550dfc22cad.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Only roughly 2%</a> of EV owners are Black, a statistic often attributed to vehicle costs and a notable lack of charging stations in predominantly Black neighborhoods, often referred to as &#8220;charging deserts.&#8221; The racial disparity within the EV industry is not just about car ownership; it extends to broader implications for public health and economic opportunities.
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<a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/one-detroit/detroit-has-an-air-pollution-problem-and-its-impacting-climate-change-residents-health/">High asthma rates and air pollution</a> have disproportionately affected Black Americans in zip codes where electric vehicle adoption has been slower due to a lack of infrastructure. Additionally, the lack of charging stations has hindered mobility and participation in the gig economy, especially in urban areas. 
Ray Smith, the visionary behind the Deroit program, spoke with One Detroit <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#bill">Senior Producer Bill Kubota</a>, to shed some light on the critical mission of the program and the skills students are being taught. Smith also talks about how he hopes the program will narrow the employment gap, improve health outcomes, and promote green job opportunities in communities of color. 
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Blast Detroit’s EV Automotive Mobility Program prepares Detroiters for an electrified future

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Population stagnation is a challenge faced by many states and regions across the nation, and Michigan is no exception. It’s a predicament that, if left unaddressed, experts say could have significant and far-reaching consequences for the state’s economy, workforce and long-term prosperity. 
<a href="https://www.michigan.gov/whitmer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer</a> has made addressing this issue a top priority and has established the &#8220;<a href="https://growingmichigan.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Growing Michigan Together Council</a>&#8221; to propose solutions. The council&#8217;s findings and recommendations, anticipated in December, will play a pivotal role in determining the state&#8217;s trajectory. <span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> 
The Council has <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/detroit-growth/gov-whitmers-growth-council-aims-to-boost-population-economy-through-education-and-infrastructure/">set out to address preK-12 education</a>, higher education, infrastructure, and workforce development, as well as <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/one-detroit/growing-michigan-together-council-american-msulims-town-hall/">gather expert opinions and lived experiences</a> of how Michigan can attract and retain more young professionals and students. The problem currently is, more than half of young Michiganders living in the state say they won’t likely stay through the next decade. 
<a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/education/detroit-chamber-survey-polls-residents-under-30/">A survey of 18–29-year-olds</a> conducted by the <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Regional Chamber</a> and <a href="https://businessleadersformichigan.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Business Leaders for Michigan</a> revealed that only 64% of respondents within this age group envision themselves residing in Michigan a decade from now, with college-educated individuals showing a stronger inclination to consider relocating. <span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> 
The majority of survey respondents cited better infrastructure and affordable housing as two key factors in the decision of where they want to live. Others surveyed also pointed to the changing climate and LGBTQ+ and abortion rights as factors. 
To better understand where Gov. Whitmer stands on this issue, One Detroit contributor <a href="https://www.michiganradio.org/people/zoe-clark" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zoe Clark</a>, political director for Michigan Radio, sat down with Gov. Whitmer at Marygrove Conservancy for a one-on-one interview about where Michigan’s population growth efforts are headed. <span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> 
They talk about Michigan’s unique access to fresh water in the face of climate change, as well as the state’s decision to <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/one-detroit/michigan-lawmakers-pass-bills-on-gun-control-lgbtq-rights-abortion-and-right-to-work/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">protect LGBTQ+ rights</a> and a woman’s right to choose. Plus, they discuss previous governor’s attempts to address the state’s population challenges, like former <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/formergovernors/recent/granholm/press-releases/2004/06/02/granholm-designates-20-projects-for-cool-cities-pilot-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s “Cool Cities”</a> initiative, and the importance of telling Michigan’s story to the world.
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While companies wrestle with new ways of working, a range of solutions, and a range of employee reactions to those solutions, are emerging. The office offers places to build important relationships and work collaboratively toward business objectives. So why has a return to the office been so challenging — and what can business leaders do to transform their space to support people and earn the commute?
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Join One Detroit and the Detroit Economic Club for a conversation with <a href="https://www.steelcase.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Steelcase Inc.</a> President and CEO <a href="https://www.steelcase.com/press-releases/sara-armbruster-becomes-steelcase-president-chief-executive-officer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sara Armbruster</a> and <a href="https://www.rocketcompanies.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rocket Companies</a> President and COO <a href="https://www.rocketcompanies.com/press-room/leadership/#:~:text=Bill%20Emerson%20is%20President%20and,growth%20and%20development%20of%20culture." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Emerson</a> to hear how they’re managing this new reality and why they still believe work is better when people are together.
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<h3>About the Speakers:</h3>
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<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-32914" src="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Sara-Armbruster.jpeg" alt="Sara Armbruster" width="146" height="200" />Sara Armbruster is the President and CEO of Steelcase Inc., the company trusted by organizations around the world to create inspiring, productive, adaptable, and safe workplaces. In addition to her role on the company’s board of directors, Sara brings executive experience from several positions to the office of CEO, which she assumed in October 2021. Most recently, she served as executive vice president of Steelcase and, before that, as vice president, strategy, research and digital transformation. As leader of this group, Sara was responsible for advancing digital technologies and digital transformation at Steelcase, as well as leadership of the IT organization.
Sara also has had responsibility for a range of innovation activities including global design research, the design and implementation of new business models, and the development of external growth opportunities, including acquisitions and partnerships. ln addition, in past roles Sara has had oversight for the company’s Applied Research + Consulting practice, Steelcase Health, Steelcase Education and the PolyVision subsidiary, which Steelcase divested in 2019.
Before joining Steelcase, Sara served as vice president of business development at Banta Corporation, a publicly traded global printing and supply chain services company based in Menasha, Wisconsin. ln that role, she led strategy development and managed all merger and acquisition activity. Sara also worked for McKinsey &amp; Company in Boston, Massachusetts and Andersen Consulting in New York, New York. Her consulting experience spanned industries and included work in North America, Europe and Asia.
Sara currently serves on the board of directors of Winnebago Industries and Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose. She also sits on the boards of Business Leaders for Michigan, The Right Place and BIFMA, and she is a trustee of the Steelcase Foundation.
Sara holds a bachelor’s degree in Slavic languages and literatures from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut; a master’s degree in international relations from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C.; and an MBA from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
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<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-32915" src="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Bill-Emerson-Headshot.png" alt="Bill Emerson" width="157" height="200" />Bill Emerson is President and Chief Operating Officer of Rocket Companies. Since August 2020, he has also served as Vice Chairman of Bedrock. In this role, he is responsible for leadership, growth and development of culture. From 2002 to 2017, Bill was Chief Executive Officer of Rocket Mortgage, the Company’s flagship business, a position he held for 15 years.
Bill is a member of the Board of Directors of Xenith, Inc., a football helmet company dedicated to advancing safety through innovation and education; the United Way of Southeast Michigan; Detroit Economic Club; Detroit Sports Organizing Committee; Housing Policy Council; Mortgage Bankers Association; National Football Foundation; Rocket Giving Fund; The Parade Company; the Detroit Children’s Fund and the Skillman Foundation. Bill earned a bachelor’s degree in business from Penn State University.
Bill’s extensive leadership roles in our key businesses for many years gives him a unique understanding of our business, culture and history through many economic cycles, which is particularly critical given recent executive transitions and the current macroeconomic challenges. His senior leadership experience also will provide our Board with valuable perspective in significant areas of oversight such as long-term strategy, budgeting, risk management, human capital management and succession planning.
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Amidst a broader backdrop of population stagnation in Michigan, an American Muslims Town Hall at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, organized by the Growing Michigan Together Council (GMTC) and the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU), brought together council workgroup members, policymakers, advocates, and community leaders to delve into the critical issues shaping Michigan&#8217;s future. Led by Michigan&#8217;s first Chief Growth Officer Hilary Doe, GMTC council and workgroup members were there to gather ideas and develop recommendations for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on how to grow Michigan&#8217;s population.
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The town hall not only served as a platform to address the specific needs of the Arab American and Muslim American communities in Southeast Michigan but also facilitated an exchange of ideas on how to maintain and expand the growth that has made Dearborn a recent standout success in Michigan&#8217;s population landscape. While over half of the state&#8217;s 83 counties witnessed a decline in their population since the last census in 2020, Dearborn stood tall as one of the few cities that experienced substantial growth. In contrast, Detroit&#8217;s population continued to dwindle, marking its seventh consecutive decade of decline.
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The GMTC, a brainchild of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer that is comprised of four workgroups, seeks to address preK-12 education, higher education, infrastructure, and workforce development, as well as gather expert opinions and lived experiences of what is fueling Michigan&#8217;s vision for the 21st century. With a goal to present their findings to Gov. Whitmer, the Michigan House of Representatives, and the Michigan Senate in December, the council is focused on charting a course for Michigan&#8217;s future.
The One Detroit team sat in on the town hall to hear what more than 50 community stakeholders attending had to say about the kinds of neighborhoods tech workers need, transportation and public transit, mental health and other underfunded services, and preparing our workforce for jobs of the future. Plus, One Detroit&#8217;s Jonathan Shead spoke with Michigan State Rep. Alabas Farhat, D-3, a GMTC member, and GMTC higher education workgroup member Fatima Salman about what policymakers may do with the council&#8217;s upcoming recommendations.
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Michigan Muslim, Arab Americans’ share their population growth strategies with the Growing Michigan Together Council

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Hispanic and Latino American workers make up 17% of total employment across the nation, but just 8% of all science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workers, a <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2021/04/01/stem-jobs-see-uneven-progress-in-increasing-gender-racial-and-ethnic-diversity/?utm_content=buffer8c9c5&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2021 PEW Research study</a> found. Despite their small share, they still make large contributions to their industries, as evidenced by the Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation’s <a href="https://www.detroitmeansbusiness.org/event-details/pasa-la-palabra-latin-x-tech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pasa la Palabra: Latin-X-Tech event</a>.  
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The event, held in recognition of <a href="https://www.hispanicheritagemonth.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hispanic Heritage Month</a>, brought together a diverse group of Hispanic and Latino American technology professionals, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts for a day of connection and celebration. Attendees were treated to a lineup of conversations from industry experts who focused on the importance of Hispanic and Latino American representation in technology, as well as panel discussions with small business owners from Detroit. 
<figure id="attachment_32770" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-32770" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-32770" src="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/ONE-DETROIT-815-Latin-X-Tech-Still-1.jpg" alt="Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation's Latin-X-Tech event" width="650" height="366" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-32770" class="wp-caption-text">Members of Detroit&#8217;s Hispanic and Latino American communities talk about their involvement in robotics and engineering at the Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation&#8217;s Pasa la Palabra: Latin-X Tech event. | Photo by One Detroit</figcaption></figure>
The event was more than just a place for networking and learning, however. It was a platform for Detroit’s Hispanic and Latino American communities to showcase their achievements, share their stories and address the challenges they face in the tech industry. It also celebrated Hispanic and Latino American culture through its food, music and local artisan offerings.  
One Detroit contributor Bryce Huffman visited the <a href="https://www.dhdc1.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation</a>’s Pasa la Palabra: Latin-X-Tech event to learn how Detroit’s Hispanic and Latino American communities continue to carve out their place in the tech world. 
He talks with <a href="https://www.dhdc1.org/about-us/team/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anita Zavala</a>, the entrepreneurship and wealth-building director at Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation; <a href="https://www.jessiefeliz.com/">Jessie Feliz</a>, the founder and lead educator of <a href="https://www.spanishswag.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spanish S.W.A.G.</a>; <a href="https://www.eyebreathedesign.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eye Breathe Design</a> Founder Eddi Gonzales; and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php/?id=100093596155683&amp;paipv=0&amp;eav=Afau-AtUjMaByeli4xFDeWxWyqtsCQFton7wXkLrOOGg-A6ntS5ZVgM8_9P1PAb7T4Q&amp;_rdr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mikey’s Cocina</a> Founder Miguel Mendez Roman, who is also the building manager at the Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation.
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Pasa la Palabra: Latin-X-Tech event celebrates Detroit’s Hispanic, Latino Americans in the tech industry

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<div>Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s Growing Michigan Together Council, <a href="https://youtu.be/WpjOfVfOGvE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unveiled during the 2023 Mackinac Policy Conference</a>, is taking a bold bipartisan approach to address the state’s key challenges. Comprised of experts from various fields, the council’s overarching goal is to devise strategies that will bolster Michigan’s population and economy with a focus on Pre-K-12 education, higher education, infrastructure, jobs, talent, and overall societal well-being.</div>
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<div>A report released by the nonpartisan <a href="https://crcmich.org/">Citizens Research Council of Michigan</a> found that Michigan has trailed behind other states in population growth for 50 years and this trajectory is projected to continue, if not worsen through 2050.</div>
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<div> Eric Lupher, president of the Citizens Research Council, joins host Tim Skubic and panelists Kyle Melinn, news editor at MIRS Newsletter, Detroit Free Press political reporter Clara Hendrickson, and Bridge Michigan reporter Jonathan Oosting on &#8220;<a href="https://video.wkar.org/show/record/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Off the Record</a>&#8221; to discuss the governor&#8217;s Growing Michigan Together Council and Michigan&#8217;s population challenges.</div>
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Citizens Research Council President Eric Lupher discusses Michigan’s population growth challenges

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In an effort to gain a deeper understanding of the priorities and aspirations of Michigan&#8217;s younger generation, the <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Regional Chamber</a> and <a href="https://businessleadersformichigan.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Business Leaders for Michigan</a> have unveiled the results of a recent survey focused on residents aged 18 to 29. This comprehensive poll, conducted by The Glengariff Group, Inc., provides valuable insights into the factors influencing young Michiganders&#8217; decisions about their future in the state.
With Michigan grappling with population stagnation and businesses struggling to fill job vacancies, <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/under-30-poll/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the survey</a> sheds light on the perspectives of those who are poised to shape the state&#8217;s social and economic landscape.
The survey reveals that only 64% of respondents within this age group envision themselves residing in Michigan a decade from now, with college-educated individuals showing a stronger inclination to consider relocating. Among the key findings, it is apparent that <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/future-of-work/new-crc-report-shows-michigans-infrastructure-struggles-under-climate-change-pressure/">the state&#8217;s infrastructure needs improvement</a>, a sentiment shared by the majority of those surveyed. Furthermore, the <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/one-detroit/bank-of-america-president-matt-elliott-discusses-detroits-recovery-housing-affordability-mackinac-policy-conference-2023/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">availability of affordable housing</a> emerges as a top concern when deciding whether to build a life in Michigan or seek opportunities elsewhere.
Continuing the conversation on the Future of Work and what it will take to grow Michigan’s population, One Detroit contributor and Detroit News Editorial Page Editor <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/staff/2646740001/nolan-finley/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nolan Finley</a> caught up with Detroit Regional Chamber <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/bios/sandy-k-baruah/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CEO Sandy Baruah</a> to talk about the survey’s findings.
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Detroit Chamber and Business Leaders for Michigan co-author new study on Michiganders under 30

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In a promising development for Detroit&#8217;s <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/great-lakes-bureau/jefferson-chalmers-neighborhood-faces-uncertain-future-due-to-climate-change/">Jefferson-Chalmers neighborhood</a> on the city&#8217;s eastside, African American entrepreneur Raphael Wright is set to open the doors of <a href="https://www.neighborhood-grocery.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Neighborhood Grocery LLC</a>. This establishment is poised to make history as the first Black-owned grocery store in Detroit in nearly a decade. <span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> 
<figure id="attachment_32445" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-32445" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-32445" src="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screen-Shot-2023-09-12-at-3.32.24-PM.png" alt="BridgeDetroit's Orlando Bailey and entrepreneur Raphael Wright at Neighborhood Grocery LLC" width="650" height="364" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-32445" class="wp-caption-text">Entrepreneur Raphael Wright (right) gives BridgeDetroit&#8217;s Orlando Bailey (left) a tour through Neighborhood Grocery LLC, a new Black-owned grocery store in Detroit&#8217;s Jefferson-Chalmers neighborhood.</figcaption></figure>
The grocery store is a full-service market that promises to provide much-needed access to fresh, healthy foods in an area that has long struggled with limited grocery options. Detroit, like many urban areas, has grappled with food deserts where residents often have limited access to affordable, nutritious food. Wright&#8217;s venture not only aims to fill this critical gap but also demonstrates the power of grassroots efforts to create sustainable change.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> 
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Another key feature of Neighborhood Grocery is its business model and innovative approach to funding. The store is partially funded through a crowdfunding and profit-sharing model that <a href="https://www.neighborhood-grocery.com/partner-with-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allows Michiganders to invest</a> in the project for as little as $50. <a href="https://www.bridgedetroit.com/author/orlando-bailey/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BridgeDetroit&#8217;s Orlando Bailey</a> spoke with Wright about his vision for Neighborhood Grocery, its innovative profit-sharing model, and its pivotal role in addressing food desert challenges while fostering a stronger sense of community.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> 
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New Black-owned grocery store aims to tackle the food desert on Detroit’s eastside

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Michigan&#8217;s infrastructure is crumbling — literally. Michigan has witnessed a troubling decline in the condition of its aging infrastructure, including its roads, water, and energy systems, and the tangible effects of climate change through <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/community-posts/last-years-flooding-damage-leaves-some-detroiters-still-waiting-for-federal-aid-repairs/">increased flooding</a>, heatwaves, and severe storms have placed additional stress on these already fragile systems. Addressing the interplay between deteriorating infrastructure and the impact of climate change has become a pressing issue for residents and policymakers alike. These challenges raise urgent questions about how to modernize and fortify critical infrastructure in the face of an evolving climate landscape.
The <a href="https://crcmich.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Citizens Research Council of Michigan</a> believes it has the answers. The council has released its latest findings in the fourth of a series of five reports, in partnership with the nonprofit <a href="https://altarum.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Altarum</a>, titled &#8220;<a href="https://crcmich.org/publications/prosperous-future" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan’s Path to a Prosperous Future: Challenges and Opportunities.</a>&#8221; The reports are helping to inform Michigan&#8217;s new <a href="https://growingmichigan.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Growing Michigan Together Council</a>, <a href="https://youtu.be/9s0szgNfdqs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer</a> at the 2023 Mackinac Policy Conference. <a href="https://crcmich.org/publications/environmental-infrastructure-and-climate-change-challenges-and-opportunities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The council&#8217;s latest report</a> explores the multiple challenges, several of which are amplified by climate change, involved with rebuilding and maintaining the state&#8217;s infrastructure, as well as remediating and protecting the environment.
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In Southeast Michigan specifically, the effects of climate change on Michigan&#8217;s weather, with warmer winters and springs and heavier rains causing more destructive storms, <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/great-lakes-bureau/jefferson-chalmers-neighborhood-faces-uncertain-future-due-to-climate-change/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have overwhelmed the region&#8217;s water systems</a>. With the impacts of climate change at the forefront, what it will take to address the stress on the state’s current water infrastructure in the face of increasingly extreme weather events in the future?
Chuck Hersey, Senior Policy Advisor for <a href="https://www.ohm-advisors.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">OHM Advisors</a>, a company that works with the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (<a href="https://www.semcog.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SEMCOG</a>) on addressing regional challenges, including those connected with water infrastructure talks with &#8220;One Detroit&#8221; producer and Future of Work host <a href="https://www.instagram.com/willofmichigan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Will Glover</a>. They talk about the process of water getting to our homes, coordination between organizations that handle different sectors of infrastructure, the need to invest in infrastructure repair, and the increased funding it will likely take to replace Southeast Michigan&#8217;s water infrastructure.
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New CRC report shows Michigan’s infrastructure struggles under climate change pressure

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Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s “Growing Michigan Together Council,” <a href="https://youtu.be/WpjOfVfOGvE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unveiled during the 2023 Mackinac Policy Conference</a>, is taking a bold bipartisan approach to address the state’s key challenges. Comprised of experts from various fields, the council’s overarching goal is to devise strategies that will bolster Michigan’s population and economy with a focus on Pre-K-12 education, higher education, infrastructure, jobs, talent, and overall societal well-being. 
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While discussions on mitigating Michigan’s population decline have persisted for decades, <a href="https://senatedems.com/camilleri/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Senator Darrin Camilleri</a> (D-4th District), a recent appointee to the council, believes that the group is breaking new ground through a multifaceted approach to growth.  
<figure id="attachment_32319" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-32319" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-32319" src="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Zoe-Clark-Sen-Camilleri-Still-1.jpg" alt="Darrin Camilleri and Zoe Clark" width="650" height="366" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-32319" class="wp-caption-text">Michigan Sen. Darrin Camilleri (left) and One Detroit population contributor Zoe Clark (right) discuss the Growing Michigan Together Council and MiLEAP at Marygrove Conservancy in Detroit. | Photo by One Detroit</figcaption></figure>
During an insightful conversation with One Detroit population contributor <a href="https://www.michiganradio.org/people/zoe-clark" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zoe Clark</a>, Political Director for Michigan Radio, Camilleri shares how the newly established Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential (<a href="https://www.michigan.gov/whitmer/news/press-releases/2023/07/12/whitmer-establishes-michigan-department-of-lifelong-education-advancement-and-potential" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MiLEAP</a>) will play a pivotal role in the overall growth strategies of the Growing Michigan Together Council. 
Camilleri also addresses concerns raised by the Michigan Board of Education regarding the constitutionality of MiLEAP and talks about his hopes that the state will become a top 10 state in terms of education quality and economic growth.
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Zoe Clark, Political Director, Michigan Radio: So let&#8217;s talk all things population. Let&#8217;s first talk about the council that you&#8217;ve been appointed to. What are you looking forward to? What is actually going to get done here?
Darrin Camilleri. Michigan Senator, 4th District: I&#8217;m excited that we&#8217;ll have a chance to dive deep into population trends, not only in Michigan but across the country as we look to figuring out solutions to help put us on the map for being one of the best places to live, grow a family, and have a job and work here. We&#8217;ve got fantastic features for people to have recreation and love being here and work here. But we need more people to know that that is a story that Michigan has to tell.
Zoe Clark: Where is that disconnect? Because there was also a report that said Michigan is second only behind West Virginia when it comes to population growth.
Sen. Darrin Camilleri: I think as a young person and knowing a lot of my friends who have moved out of state or even out of the area that I grew up in, Downriver, people are looking for places where you have a lot of activity, where you can walk to coffee shops or museums or art shows and a place that you can feel like you&#8217;re part of a community. And I think we need to go back to more of those types of communities.
If you look at Michigan and places that are growing, it&#8217;s places like Traverse City or Ann Arbor or places like Royal Oak and Oakland County. And those are walkable, livable communities that people are attracted to based on the experience that they have there. And so we need more of that across the state.
Zoe Clark: So those places that you just named also happened to be very wealthy areas. Talk to me a little bit about how, when we&#8217;re talking about growing population, that fits in with inclusivity for all so that everyone can make a home in these areas that can be tough to find housing and affordable living.
Sen. Darrin Camilleri: And that&#8217;s actually a key piece that was brought up in our first Population Council meeting is that we want to ensure that any of the data that we are looking at and analyzing is really inclusive of every experience of all of our Michiganders. And so we&#8217;re talking about communities of color. Some of that data is not always aggregated in a way that is telling the full story. Let&#8217;s put it that way. Where we&#8217;re talking about Latino communities or black communities or any of our other diverse, beautiful members of Michigan, we want to ensure that every piece of the data is accurate and that we are inclusive for all of those voices.
Zoe Clark: So help me understand. So it&#8217;s like this younger generation that we need to get to stay or that we want to have them stay. Meantime, we sort of have a council or folks in government saying, here&#8217;s what we need to do, tend to be older. So how will the council, or whoever is making some of these decisions, make sure to listen to the younger generation?
Sen. Darrin Camilleri: This is how I&#8217;ve lived my life in politics. I&#8217;m one of the younger people always in the room, and I think that there are those who are eager to listen to people like me and others who are of my generation wanting to see what is it that I&#8217;m choosing about Michigan. Why do I want to be here? And for me, it&#8217;s about making sure that we have a place that is close to home, that I have a beautiful family nearby, that we&#8217;ve got wonderful places to live that are affordable, and that we do have these beautiful natural resources across Michigan, whether it&#8217;s Lake Erie or the Detroit River.
Zoe Clark: You are chair of the PreK-12 education budget in the Senate. Talk to me a little bit about the conversations that you want to make sure are had at that table.
Sen. Darrin Camilleri: When talking about education, it has to be pre-K through post-secondary. And so we&#8217;ve got to talk about how do we get the best resources in front of our kids as early as possible. So we&#8217;re talking about literally right from birth. So whether it&#8217;s the Dolly Parton Imagination Library and getting more books in the hands of families, which is something that we added in our school budget for more Michigan students to take advantage of. All the way through, what is that post-secondary credential? Whether it&#8217;s a trade school or a two-year community college or a four-year university, all of those options have to be on the table for conversation.
Zoe Clark: Growing Michigan&#8217;s population has been on the top of politicians, lawmakers, academics, economists, minds for decades here in Michigan. How will this council, do you think, be different this time than the previous conversations, iterations, idea-making?
Sen. Darrin Camilleri: I think for a lot of the conversation previously, it&#8217;s always been about how do we hearken back to the past. And because we have so many people who came to Michigan for a specific purpose. My family is one of them. My dad&#8217;s an immigrant from Malta. Him and his family came to the U.S. in the 1960s with the hope of the American dream and a good manufacturing job. On my mom&#8217;s side, Mexican Americans who came from Texas all the way to Detroit again with the hope of manufacturing. But that was 60, 70 years ago for my mom&#8217;s side and 50 years ago from my dad&#8217;s side. That type of Michigan doesn&#8217;t exist in the same way.
But how can we become a place that is still a beacon of hope for the future? It&#8217;s about climate. It&#8217;s about our environment. We are going to be the place that, because of the lack of action at the national and worldwide level for climate change, Michigan is the place where you can seek refuge in the future. You know, we do have our moments of really high heat, but we&#8217;re not sitting in 120 degrees like in Arizona. There&#8217;s going to be a point pretty soon where people are starting to realize that we want to live in a place that is bearable and beautiful all at the same time.
Zoe Clark: So affordable living, transportation, which is always top of mind here in Michigan, and education. What will success look like? Are there going to be metrics? How will you know that this is working other than maybe a population of 11 million? What does that look like?
Sen. Darrin Camilleri: So I do think we need to hit a specific target, whether that is a specific number that we&#8217;re hoping to be at by 2050 or a specific growth number. One of those two things is really critical because we do need to have a North Star. But the other piece is what are the other metrics along the way? And so if we&#8217;re going to hit a certain population, whether it&#8217;s 11 million, 12 million by a certain number, what are the steps along the way that we need to be taking together?
Whether you are a Democrat or Republican in this legislature, we need to be united in that purpose. And that&#8217;s something I hope we can come out of this council with, is that this is the vision for Michigan. It&#8217;s not a vision for the governor or for the legislature or for this one body of people. It&#8217;s literally, how can we put all of our partisan politics aside and say, for Michigan to thrive, we must do this together and stick on that path for the next ten or 15 years?
Zoe Clark: Let&#8217;s talk a little bit about education. The governor just recently announced an entire new department will go into effect in December. Talk to me a little bit about MI-Leap.
Sen. Darrin Camilleri: I think for this new department that the governor is creating, it&#8217;s again, back to that principle of we need to be focused on a goal as a state and we need to all be working towards that direction. And so with her new initiative, with MI-Leap, I think it&#8217;s going to be very important that we focus on those early learners as well as those who are looking to go right into the economy and to get a job. And we do know that those who have been working in the Department of Education, I&#8217;ve heard it over and over again during this budget process, they need more staff, they need more support. So if we can figure out ways to balance that workload, I think this new department is really going to help.
Zoe Clark: So you just mentioned the Department of Education. So these are going to be two separate departments. And there&#8217;s been some consternation from some folks who are part of the Department of Education, including the state superintendent, Michael Rice. The Education board members actually asking for an opinion from the state attorney general, Dana Nessel, about the constitutionality of this new department. Is it not great that it&#8217;s already- with its announcement that there&#8217;s already a little controversy surrounding whether it&#8217;s something that even Democrats are going to back?
Sen. Darrin Camilleri: I think there&#8217;s always going to be resistance to change, no matter whether it&#8217;s coming from a Democratic administration or a Republican administration. But this one component around education, no matter the party of the governor, there has not been an ability for the governor to really lead in a direction unless they do some systemic departmental changes. And that&#8217;s one way that I know that Governor Whitmer is trying to lead in this space.
She has the constitutional authority to create her own departments and to reorganize departments as well. I&#8217;m backing it. I think a lot of legislators are backing it, too, because we do see the benefit of working with a department that is focused on some of these early and post opportunities for education.
Zoe Clark: Let&#8217;s think about 2033. Write me a headline if Michigan is a successful state when it comes to population growth, and particularly your passion, which is education.
Sen. Darrin Camilleri: The headline that I&#8217;d like to see is that Michigan is a top ten state for growth, and we are in a top ten state for education across the country. When we look at some of the things that we&#8217;re investing in right now, we are trying to plant the seeds for future opportunities, not only for our students but for our educators as well. If we can be the place for an education workforce, it&#8217;s going to set us up for so many opportunities for success.
Zoe Clark: Can we do it?
Sen. Darrin Camilleri: I think we can. We&#8217;ve got some really important investments in the education workforce that we just passed in this budget. We&#8217;ve got record per pupil amounts going out to every student across Michigan, and we&#8217;re also investing in equity. We&#8217;re spending $200 million in additional resources for our at-risk students. And that&#8217;s also being added in with a new opportunity index that if you you&#8217;re in a high concentration poverty district, you&#8217;re going to get more money per pupil than those that don&#8217;t have those exact needs.
That, I think is going to level the playing field, balance out some of these inequities in our system and actually help us address these challenges. Hopefully for that 2033 headline to say, Come to Michigan. Be the place that you want to raise your family. Be the place that you want to learn and grow and work. And that is something that I think we can all be proud of.
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At the intersection of positivity, community and eating healthy is Detroit restaurant and culinary business <a href="https://www.thekitchenbycwq.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Kitchen</a> by Cooking with Que. Founded by Quiana “Que” Broden, a renowned chef and entrepreneur, the business specializes in providing vegan and vegetarian meals and promoting healthy, plant-based eating options.  
RELATED: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rJFVp_9dFw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chef Quiana Broden shares her backstory and why she created Cooking with Que</a>
The idea for <a href="https://cookingwithque.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cooking with Que</a> was born out of <a href="https://cookingwithque.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Que’s personal journey of adopting a vegan lifestyle</a>. After facing health challenges, Broden made a conscious decision to change her diet. That’s when she discovered the benefits of plant-based cooking. Inspired by her own transformation, she wanted to share her culinary expertise and create a space where people could enjoy nutritious and satisfying vegan and vegetarian meals.  
&#8220;American Black Journal&#8221; contributor <a href="https://twitter.com/WillofMichigan">Will Glover</a>, a producer for &#8220;One Detroit,&#8221; visited The Kitchen to talk with Broden about how she kept her business thriving during the pandemic, how Detroit&#8217;s business community helps each other find success, and how her unyielding positivity motivates her desire to bring healthy food to neighborhoods across the country.
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Will Glover, Producer, One Detroit: One of the things that I hear a lot about working as a small business owner in Southeast Michigan, in Detroit, is that there is a community of partnership and essentially an ability and a want for people in this business environment to help each other out. Is that something that you&#8217;ve experienced when running your business, when getting started, when you come up against an obstacle that you need a solution for? How has the business community in Southeast Michigan, in Detroit, been there?
Quiana Broden, Owner and Executive Chef, The Kitchen by Cooking with Que: I will say that everybody I&#8217;ve come in contact with- I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m just blessed to meet the nicest people. People are very caring, they&#8217;re very warm welcoming, and they give you information. So if I know I&#8217;m trying to do something different that I wouldn&#8217;t normally do- I&#8217;m not good at no either, so when people say no to me that just means I&#8217;m talking to the wrong person. So I will go to people who will help me get the information that I need because I don&#8217;t know everything.
But I also think, vice versa, the things that are working for me, I share it with the people that were in my circle. And honestly, the people in Detroit, we&#8217;re like open books to each other. Because the thing about it is, what is the purpose of me having this information and die with the information? It&#8217;s just going to die with me? Why would I not want to share that?
I&#8217;m very big on that and I&#8217;m also very big on keeping the circle of people around me- that we&#8217;re sharing because we should all win. There&#8217;s enough for all of us to win. In my mind, I don&#8217;t look at other restaurateurs as competition. I don&#8217;t have competition. My competition is- I&#8217;m my own competition, not everybody else. We should all be able to win. And if I&#8217;m doing something that&#8217;s working for me and it makes me successful, why would I not want to tell you so you can be successful too?
Will Glover: How has the development that&#8217;s happening down here- how do you feel about it? When it comes to the development, are you excited about it? Are there concerns? Is there any trepidation? Where do you feel like you fit in?
Quiana Broden: I&#8217;m always looking at the positive. When I always look at the positive- there is no negative for me because the negative is a waste of energy. So my brain- I&#8217;m always looking at my mission, my purpose. If I know who my clients are, how do I market to those customers? When I opened right here on Woodward, it was nobody else. There was a clothing store. It was nothing. This was a block that was not- there was no gentrification. It was like, Que, why would you want to put this right here?
Because my brain said healthy food in every hood. People should not get food based off of their zip code. They should get food because it should be their human right. So my focus is always, how do I make this food more available? So in my mind, just as fast as you see- every time you see a McDonald&#8217;s, in my head, in the future, you&#8217;re going to see a kitchen because the goal is to put healthy food everywhere.
Because we have to be the people to change the perception of what it is. So I&#8217;m very glad that they&#8217;re bringing things back to the city. I&#8217;m glad that they&#8217;re allowing the people that are from the city to actually get these locations as well.
There are different associations that are always pushing for you to support the people who are local, allowed them to get into some of the places. Like, you&#8217;ve got the Metro Detroit Black Business Association. They&#8217;re always for the small business owner. And that&#8217;s a cool backing to have, but again, you make these allies with the people that are going to help you keep growing and you keep building.
So for me, I like the community in the way it is now but I also like that we are getting to see more. But you can&#8217;t make your whole business focused on if everybody else is on the block. It&#8217;s how am I going to bring clients to my location?
Will Glover: The biggest challenge that Southeast Michigan is facing, a big challenge that Detroit is facing, all metropolitan areas are facing is how do we get millennials and anyone who wants to start a business or anyone who wants to be a part of the workforce to come to Southeast Michigan, to come do it in places like Detroit?
Quiana Broden: So my focus, again, you know it&#8217;s going to be my mission and my purpose. But it&#8217;s also families. What do people do as a family? What do people do to get back to the table? So my brain wants to do things to bring people here.
So for us, we do cooking classes that you can bring all ages. We have to get people out of their houses and we also have to stop pushing fear on people. You&#8217;ve got to think about what people are at home looking at when they&#8217;re on the news. You can&#8217;t come to Detroit because of this. Yes, we&#8217;re changing their perspective of it, but I think people just need to see it&#8217;s a really family-oriented place. There&#8217;s things for you to do. You can come out to eat at all the restaurants.
Or if you are a person that has that business idea, don&#8217;t sit on it, but create programs that have them where they can come and sit with people who are business owners like me. Like, hey, you&#8217;ve got a business idea? Let&#8217;s sit and work with you on a business plan. Let&#8217;s get you from plan A to B to C. What does that look like? And make it more- and it&#8217;s not to say that there are not programs like that out there, but I think we need to talk about it more.
As much as we can talk about negative things, if we talk about those types of things, I think it would pique the interest of people that are not here. Not here in Detroit, because you get people from out— I have people that would say, I&#8217;m leaving New York to move to Detroit. So you get that, but what about the people that are here?
I&#8217;m always saying, look in your own backyard. Look around the City of Detroit, all the places that people are. When people were in the city and they moved to the suburbs and now why do we want them to come back? Put the same amenities that are in the suburbs in the city of Detroit. I shouldn&#8217;t have to go to the suburbs to find a healthy grocery store. I&#8217;m super excited that they&#8217;re bringing more grocery stores to Detroit, but Detroit is large.
We should all have the same accessibility to healthy food. How do I make that? How do I make that become, like, the squeaky wheel gets the oil? I tell people that come to my classes if you don&#8217;t open your mouth- closed mouths don&#8217;t get fed. If you don&#8217;t open your mouth and tell your neighborhood, hey, at every gas station or corner, I want you to stop just giving us chips and cookies. Give us healthy food. Until we make the noise, it&#8217;s not going to change.
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Cooking with Que Founder Quiana Broden brings plant-based dining to Detroit with The Kitchen

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Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z — each generation has its unique perspectives, questions, and aspirations around the future of work and what’s needed to make Michigan the place for them to live, work, and play. With Michigan’s population on the decline, looking at each generation’s impact on the state&#8217;s economy becomes paramount to seeing how policymakers and other stakeholders can turn the population around.
Since January 2023, One Detroit has explored the impact each generation has on the state&#8217;s workforce, economy, and overall prosperity. We&#8217;ve looked at the challenges <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/one-detroit/the-high-cost-of-baby-boomers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">baby boomers</a> face in today&#8217;s workforce and the knowledge gaps they may leave behind when they retire, and at <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/one-detroit/gen-x-future-of-work-town-hall/">Generation X</a>, the next generation of leaders who have taken up the mantle to prepare people for the jobs that don&#8217;t exist yet.
We didn&#8217;t forget about the young professionals either. As <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/one-detroit/millennials-on-the-move-making-michigan-home-future-of-work-town-hall/">millennials</a> make their way up the work chain, we examined whether the state has the attractions and opportunities to attract the generation to stay here, and we talked with three members of <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/one-detroit/gen-z-in-the-workforce/">Gen Z</a> about their futures and what they expect when they enter the workforce after graduation.
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Join One Detroit Producer and Future of Work host, Will Glover, on June 21 at noon for “From Boomers to Zoomers: The Generational Impact on the Workforce” to delve into the in-depth conversations we’ve convened about each generation&#8217;s outlook on the future and how each has, and continues to, impact Michigan’s workforce.
This town hall continues One Detroit&#8217;s <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/future-of-work/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cumulative, ongoing conversation</a> involving the future of work and workforce development in Michigan. Livestream this town hall on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/onedetroit">One Detroit&#8217;s Facebook</a> page, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1hugCLs8k8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YouTube</a> and at the top of this page.
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<h2>Watch our Generational Future of Work Town Halls here:</h2>
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In partnership with the <a href="https://www.michiganlearning.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan Learning Channel</a>, One Detroit producer and <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#will">Future of Work host Will Glover</a> sat down with three members of Gen Z — Brooke Snow, Samantha Chiang and Kendall Murray — to talk about how they and their peers are approaching higher education, their hopes for the future, what they want from employers and a career, and whether they saw themselves staying in Michigan after graduation.
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One Detroit producer and <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#will">Future of Work host Will Glover</a> talk with <a href="https://letsdetroit.com/career-profile/marjace-miles/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marjace Miles of Let&#8217;s Detroit</a>, who works within Ford Motor Company&#8217;s Marketing Leadership Program, about millennial migration trends in the workforce and the benefits of being a young professional in Michigan. They talk about millennial migration patterns and job-hopping trends, and whether the state has the attractions and opportunities to attract the generation to stay here.
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One Detroit producer and <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#will">Future of Work host Will Glover</a> will talk with <a href="https://www.michiganworks.org/hundt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan Works! Association CEO Ryan Hundt</a> about how much back-filling Generation X will need to manage as some Baby Boomers leave the workforce. Plus, they will discuss what Gen X business leaders and city officials need to focus on to grow Michigan&#8217;s workforce and prepare people for the jobs that don&#8217;t exist yet.
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<a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#will" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Future of Work host Will Glover</a> talks with Detroit Free Press <a href="https://www.freep.com/staff/2646314001/susan-tompor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Personal Finance Columnist Susan Tompor</a> about the challenges baby boomers face in today&#8217;s workforce and the impact the generation has on Michigan&#8217;s economy. Plus, they discuss the knowledge gaps baby boomers may leave behind when they decide to retire, and how younger generations may be affected by baby boomers&#8217; extended stay at work.
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As the baton of the workforce is passed from one generation to the next, Generation Z emerges as a powerful force, bringing their unique perspectives and aspirations to the table. Born between the mid-1990s and early 2010s, Gen Z is approaching higher education and their future careers with a fresh mindset, seeking practical skills and hands-on experiences that will empower them in an ever-evolving job market. 
Gen Z also remains optimistic for a future where their work aligns with their passions, enables positive societal impact and fosters constant learning. Statistics from a <a href="https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/us/Documents/consumer-business/welcome-to-gen-z.pdf">Deloitte and Network of Executive Women (NEW) poll</a> show that 77% of Generation Z said they would prefer to work for a company that shared similar values. 
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While many factors may influence their career decisions, including opportunities elsewhere, a significant question remains: Will Michigan’s Gen Z population continue to call the state home, pursuing their dreams here and contributing to the state’s prosperity? 
Three members of Generation Z — Brooke Snow, Samantha Chiang and Kendall Murray — sat down with One Detroit producer and <a href="https://twitter.com/YeaitsmewillG">Future of Work host Will Glover</a> to talk about their hopes for the future, the types of jobs they have been exposed to in their K-12 careers, and whether they will stay in Michigan after graduation.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> 
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This conversation comes from One Detroit’s <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/one-detroit/gen-z-in-the-workforce/">Future of Work Town Hall “Gen Z in the Workforce”</a> and continues One Detroit’s <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/future-of-work/">cumulative, ongoing conversations</a> involving the future of work and workforce development in Michigan.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> 
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Will Glover, Producer, One Detroit: How optimistic are you about your future in general, and how optimistic do you think your peers are?
Brooke Snow, College Freshman, &#8220;The Career Center&#8221; Student: Well, I would definitely say I was not as optimistic as I am now my senior year of high school. I was leaving and I knew there was somewhere to go, but I didn&#8217;t know if I wanted to be there. But I went knowing that I had experience in that area already. And it-
Will Glover: You mean going into art?
Brooke Snow: Yes, going into illustration and fiber arts. But now that I&#8217;m engaging and experiencing at a more professional level, I feel as though this is something I would like to pursue. I do see myself doing this in the future and I am pretty optimistic of what holds ahead of me.
Will Glover: What about you, Sam?
Samantha Chiang, High School Senior, &#8220;The Career Center&#8221; Student: Personally, the future looks pretty optimistic to me. I know a lot of my friends- they also probably feel optimistic. We&#8217;re all going into good universities or going into a job or taking a gap year and have a goal for that gap year.
I want to do entrepreneuring. Everybody&#8217;s doing their own thing. Everybody&#8217;s like, we&#8217;re done with high school, let&#8217;s move on to the future. So it&#8217;s really— I don&#8217;t know. Everybody seems happy around it.
Will Glover: What about you, Kendall?
Kendall Murray, College Freshman, Welding Student: I personally- now, with the path that I have taken, I do feel very hopeful just because there is a large need for trades. However, I know a lot of my friends that are still in university, they are a little bit fearful just because they&#8217;re not sure what they want to do. And it&#8217;s hard when you&#8217;re already going for one thing to then figure out what it is you want to do from there.
Will Glover: In your K-12 education, have you had any courses that were geared specifically toward you experiencing, learning about, or making any sort of decisions or aiming towards any sort of career pathways or anything like that? Kendall, we&#8217;ll start with you.
Kendall Murray: I went to a private school for high school and there weren&#8217;t really any options given to us for trades. It was mainly pushed to do something, whether it was science, politics, medical.
Will Glover: Sam?
Samantha Chiang: I mean, at least at my school, it&#8217;s freshman year and then you get to do a choose your adventure kind of thing. So there&#8217;s an engineering-type area that you can choose to go into that, and a bunch of engineering classes open up. Even if you&#8217;re in engineering, you could take medical classes, but you get priority in engineering.
Brooke Snow: I feel like there are not many opportunities unless we ask for it. I&#8217;m really glad that so many people are asking now because a lot of people in this generation don&#8217;t really speak up for exactly what they want.
Will Glover: Do you think that the guidance that you guys are getting is applicable to the world that you&#8217;re going into? Sam, we&#8217;ll start with you.
Samantha Chiang: I mean, yes. Whatever an adult says, for example, they would say their exact experience and then you take it with a grain of salt because it&#8217;s different times now.
Kendall Murray: Same thing, grain of salt, with everybody else&#8217;s opinions. I do think that there is a little bit of a lack of understanding of what it is actually like to be in Gen-Z per se navigating the world because it is changing. There are a lot of things that aren&#8217;t the same anymore, whether it be money or buying houses and things of that nature. It&#8217;s much harder. And I think that older generations really aren&#8217;t equipped because we don&#8217;t know where it&#8217;s progressing.
Brooke Snow: I usually, when people give me advice on where to go, I usually don&#8217;t take it to heart unless they have some experience in that field. And even then, I still don&#8217;t hold it down in stone.
Will Glover: Are you guys planning on staying in Michigan once you&#8217;ve graduated? I see you smiling already, so that doesn&#8217;t bode well. And are your peers going to be staying here? What are the conversations that you guys are hearing amongst your friends?
Brooke Snow: Unless you guys can bend the climate to be a little more warm. I don&#8217;t think I can stand any more six-month winters after I finish college. But everything here is perfectly fine. I think some of my peers are going to stay, but me, I&#8217;m not sure. I couldn&#8217;t say.
Will Glover: Sam, what about you? Because Michigan, obviously, engineering is something that we do better than a lot of people in the world. I&#8217;m just putting that out there.
Samantha Chiang: I know.
Will Glover: What is your thought?
Samantha Chiang: I&#8217;m definitely going to stay here in Michigan. Like you said, Michigan is so great for engineering, so why would I leave? I don&#8217;t know. I&#8217;m going to stay, but my friends definitely want to leave. Again, it&#8217;s out of anybody&#8217;s control. It&#8217;s the weather.
Will Glover: Is it really— Kendall, you&#8217;re next. Is it really the weather?
Brooke Snow: Yes.
Samantha Chiang: Yes.
Will Glover: There&#8217;s snow in New York. California is on fire half the time.
Brooke Snow: I definitely have to go somewhere in the middle or in the south. I cannot stay up here.
Will Glover: Kendall, are you staying here?
Kendall Murray: No.
Will Glover: The a-matter-of-factness. So why not?
Kendall Murray: There&#8217;s a lot of reasons. I feel like it&#8217;s just because I grew up here. I want to see something different. Experience my own story and not just everything I&#8217;ve been around my entire life. And as for my friends, they&#8217;ve either already left Michigan, or they are leaving.
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Inside the minds of Gen Z: What the next generation thinks about the future of work

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A unique educational partnership has produced its first class of high school graduates. In 2019, the closure of <a href="https://www.marygrove.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marygrove College</a> gave way to a different approach to education on the same campus with the Detroit Public School’s new School at Marygrove, <a href="https://marygroveconservancy.org/the-school-at-marygrove/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a social justice, engineering and education-focused school</a>.
The School at Marygrove is part of a “cradle to career” program called the <a href="https://marygroveconservancy.org/p-20-educational-programs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">P-20 Partnership</a>. It’s a collaboration among several organizations including <a href="https://www.detroitk12.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Public Schools Community District</a> (DPSCD), the <a href="https://kresge.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kresge Foundation</a>, the <a href="https://marygroveconservancy.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marygrove Conservancy</a>, <a href="https://www.starfishfamilyservices.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Starfish Family Services</a> and the <a href="https://soe.umich.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Michigan School of Education</a>.
The School at Marygrove held a monumental commencement ceremony for its first graduating high school class, which collectively received over $6 million in post-secondary scholarships and awards. One Detroit contributor Daijah Moss stopped by <a href="https://www.musichall.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Music Hall Detroit</a> to capture the celebration.
At the commencement, graduates share their experiences at the new school. University of Michigan School of Education Dean Elizabeth Birr Moje talks about the college’s commitment to the next generation of teachers and students. The commencement ceremony featured school principal Lisa Williams and founding teachers, DPSCD Board Members, <a href="https://www.courts.michigan.gov/courts/supreme-court/justices/justice-kyra-h.-bolden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan Supreme Court Justice Kyra Bolden</a>, and the graduation class’s valedictorian and salutatorian.
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Lisa Williams, Principal, The School at Marygrove: I bring you greetings on behalf of the Detroit Public Schools Community District and my amazing faculty and staff. Welcome to the first commencement exercise for the school at Marygrove.
Daijah Moss, Contributing Producer, One Detroit: The School at Marygrove. A new school, opening new doors for students in the City of Detroit. After opening in 2019, right before the pandemic, the social justice and engineering-focused school has officially had its first graduating class.
Sister Jane, IHM / Marygrove: For over 90 years, Marygrove College has served with excellence in education and served the city of Detroit. It is with great pride that this tradition continues through the school at Marygrove, part of the Detroit Public Schools and the Conservancy.
LaTrice McClendon, DPSCD Board Member: Today is a testament to what happens when partners across the city come together to make a dream come true.
Justice Kyra Bolden, Supreme Court: Whether it&#8217;s the Kresge Foundation, PNC Bank, the University of Michigan School of Education, or many other wonderful and dedicated partners, the entire community is integral and an integral part of the school at Marygrove.
Michael Chrzan, Founding Teacher, The School at Marygrove: We know the quite literal work, sweat, and tears it took to get here. Ours included. To open a brand new school. It&#8217;s hard enough to open a school in a pandemic where we all lost someone or something. With almost annual leadership turnover through virtual teaching and learning, and in what amounted to an active construction zone for four years. Well, it&#8217;s quite difficult. Let&#8217;s just say that.
Imani Daniels, Class of 2023 Salutatorian, The School at Marygrove: Today, we stand on the threshold of a new chapter, a chapter brimming with endless possibilities and exciting opportunities. The hard work, dedication, perseverance, craftsmanship, integrity, social responsibility and empathy we have demonstrated, has led us to this very moment.
Dana Odums, Class of 2023 Valedictorian, The School at Marygrove: What does it mean to be Marygrove Made? It means that we not only prescribe to the rigor of academic challenge but devote ourselves, to embodying core values that have shaped our educational career and that we will carry throughout the remainder of our lives.
Michael Chrzan: When TSM was merely an idea, we envisioned a place where education would transcend traditional boundaries. We set out on a journey to create a safe haven of learning, a place where critical thinking and community-mindedness would flourish. A place where joy and community. We&#8217;re just as important, if not more, than formulas and essays.  You have exemplified the spirit of our school, embodying the portrait of a graduate that we so passionately crafted.
Elizabeth Birr Moje, Dean, University of Michigan Marsal Family School of Education: We&#8217;re really committed to preparing the very best teachers for our children throughout society. And we send students, our graduates all over the country. But one of the things that we haven&#8217;t always done is stay with them. The school at Marygrove and our partnership with Detroit Public Schools Community District gives us the opportunity to continue to work with our graduates. 
David Henry, Math Teacher, The School at Marygrove: This graduating class is&#8211;I&#8217;m especially fond of them because they were my first class as a teacher. They didn&#8217;t have any examples. They had no role models. They didn&#8217;t know what seniors were supposed to do. They didn&#8217;t know about senior dues. They didn&#8217;t know. So they learned together every step of the way and I&#8217;m so proud of them.
Hunter Janness, Senior Teacher, The School at Marygrove: Not only were they learning how to be high schoolers, they were building a school and they were also facing something that none of us had ever faced before, all while trying to just pass their classes. So, I mean, it&#8217;s been quite a journey for them. We&#8217;re really proud of them for being able to make it.
Juwan Bralon Torres, 2023 Graduate, The School at Marygrove: I applied my freshman year, didn&#8217;t get in. Sophomore year, didn&#8217;t get in. My junior year, I didn&#8217;t get it. But then they reevaluated my application. They told me I got it and I cried. I cried because it was like I was fighting for this battle. I fought tooth and nail for it. So once I actually got it, and then once I got into school and talked to the people and it was so embracing and loving to me, I was like, Man, this is really one of the best choices I could have made.
Dariana Mallett, 2023 Graduate, The School at Marygrove: My teachers was a different experience that I never had before. So, they definitely are what I&#8217;m going to remember the most and I want to keep in contact.
Rashaad Anderson, 2023 Graduate, The School at Marygrove: That first day, man, when I walked in, I was like dang, I don&#8217;t know nobody. I gotta try to adapt and just try to learn who I want to be around. But I feel like it went well and we all came together.
Amaia Dior Gooden, 2023 Graduate, The School at Marygrove: Today is kind of weird, my father passed on May 31st ten years ago. So it&#8217;s kind of hard to be here because I feel like everything is coming and hitting me all at once. The amount of support that I had got from the student body was immaculate.
Rashaad Anderson: It took all of us just working together, working hard, putting our best foot forward, always trying to get our assignments in on time. And that got us here.
Juwan Bralon Torres: One of a kind. You&#8217;re not going to find no school like this anywhere, it&#8217;s a family. We ain&#8217;t just some kids that chose to just go to school together, or we was forced here, we loved each other as a family.
Michael Chrzan: I want people to know that as all things striving for greatness, art is a work in progress. If there&#8217;s ever a time where we got to a place where we&#8217;re like, All right, we&#8217;re done. We built the best school. We&#8217;re missing something, right? And so, I want people to know it&#8217;s a work in progress to understand what they&#8217;re getting themselves into, but that it is a community of support. That we are building the plane as we&#8217;re flying it, but we are building it together.
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Detroit Public Schools graduates first high school class from The School at Marygrove

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Every year, the state’s top policymakers, C-suite business executives, academics, community and civic leaders head to Mackinac Island for the Detroit Regional Chamber&#8217;s <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/mackinac-policy-conference/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mackinac Policy Conference</a> to discuss the challenges and opportunities that Michigan has before it. This year’s conference is set to explore the theme “The Power of And,” emphasizing the importance of collaboration, innovation and inclusive solutions to shape the future of Detroit and the state.  
With an array of thought-provoking discussions, interactive sessions and networking opportunities, the 2023 Mackinac Policy Conference is expected to be a platform for meaningful conversations and transformative ideas, much like previous ideas that began at the conference including the bipartisan auto-reform policy, rebounding Detroit from bankruptcy, and more.  
One Detroit’s 2023 Mackinac Policy Conference correspondent <a href="https://www.michiganradio.org/people/zoe-clark" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zoe Clark</a>, political director for Michigan Radio, sat down with Detroit Regional Chamber <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/bios/sandy-k-baruah/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CEO Sandy Baruah</a> and Bank of America Michigan <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/bios/matt-elliott/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Matt Elliott</a>, this year’s conference chair, for a preview of the annual conference and what attendees can expect. They talk about the conference theme, the <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/future-of-work/">future of work</a>, what each are looking forward to, and how the conference’s conversations affect the daily lives of Michiganders.  
Detroit Public TV will provide <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/one-detroit/2023-mackinac-policy-conference/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">live coverage of the 2023 Mackinac Policy Conference</a> beginning Tuesday, May 30. Stream key conversations from the conference here.  Plus, don&#8217;t miss a special one-hour One Detroit episode from the conference airing at 7 p.m. ET Thursday, June 1.
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Zoe Clark, Political Director, Michigan Radio: So for folks who are new to Michigan or haven&#8217;t heard of the Mackinac Policy Conference before, what is it? Why does it matter? 
Sandy Baruah, President &amp; CEO, Detroit Regional Chamber: So the Mackinac Policy Conference is unique. It&#8217;s a terrific asset that the chamber happens to be stewards of, but it&#8217;s essentially Michigan&#8217;s senior management retreat that takes place on an island where we have you sequestered with no cars. Mediocre cell phone reception. But it&#8217;s really a it&#8217;s a management retreat in the sense that we&#8217;re bringing together academic leaders, business leaders, civic leaders, obviously political leaders to be in one place at one time to really address the opportunities and challenges that Michigan has before us. 
What are we going to do about these opportunities and challenges? And the great thing about it is, is that all these leaders are there. These are all C-suite leaders and they&#8217;re all accessible. If you&#8217;re media, if you&#8217;re a fellow attendee. Everyone&#8217;s accessible on equal terms and relationships are created. Discussions are had that would take months to schedule individually, but you&#8217;re going to have dozens of them in the span of an hour. 
Zoe Clark: Matt, as chair of the conference, you get to put a big imprint into the theme. And the theme this year is &#8216;The Power of And&#8217;. Tell me about that and how you&#8217;re thinking about that theme. 
Matt Elliot, Michigan Market President, Bank of America: Well, as Sandy mentioned, that this is a conversation amongst business leaders, civic leaders and others that in the current environment is very often framed in either or terms. Okay, you&#8217;re Democrat or a Republican. You&#8217;re left or right, you&#8217;re Spartan Wolverine. But we all know from a lot of personal experience and all of us have this, is that the best ideas, the best solutions come when multiple points of view are brought to the table, sometimes after a really healthy debate. And so what we want to do is leverage that power of and bring some concepts together that may have some constructive tension to them and see if we can drive forward for better solutions for everybody. 
Zoe Clark: That&#8217;s really saying something, though, that &#8216;The Power of And&#8217; can work for Spartans and Wolverines. I mean you&#8217;re throwing down there. 
Matt Elliot: I&#8217;m throwing down the gantlet. And I say that as someone who grew up in mid-Michigan and a Spartan. 
Zoe Clark: Here at One Detroit, the future of work is something we talk a lot about. Talk to me about the future of work and how that might intertwine into these conversations up at the island. 
Matt Elliot: We will cover the future of work in several different ways. The most obvious one is we&#8217;ll talk a lot about talent. And one of the things we&#8217;re going to do not only in this session but others, is try to do a level set with some data. You know, it&#8217;s you can&#8217;t have an and unless you agree on a common set of facts. So we&#8217;ll start with that. And then we&#8217;ll bring out some different points of view about how we develop talent more effectively so that people can be more effective in the future of work. We&#8217;ll also talk about things like electrification and the transformation of the automotive and mobility industry, which will have a huge impact on all of us in Michigan. 
Zoe Clark: Sandy, you mentioned the sort of senior managers up on the island. As I mentioned, these are philanthropists. You know, there&#8217;s it&#8217;s heady, weighty stuff.  Help me understand for someone living right now in Detroit, in southeast Michigan, who isn&#8217;t going to the island. How what is happening on the island could affect daily lives in the future of Michigan. 
Sandy Baruah: So I&#8217;d say two things. First of all, it what happens on the island doesn&#8217;t stay on the island. It is the opposite of Las Vegas. You know, first of all, the sessions are streamed. So what our audience is seeing when you&#8217;re sitting in that, you know, that main theater room listening to either Bill Ford or Liz Cheney or Fareed Zakaria or Santa Ono, you can watch for free, thanks to our partnership with Detroit Public Television. 
The second thing I would say is that the conference has a great history of working on long-term challenges that eventually come to fruition that affect all of us. For example one, outside these windows, you can see the building of the Gordie Howe Bridge. That is something that the conference and the chamber worked on for literally 20 years, highlighted at the conference. The car insurance reform bill was signed at the conference in 2019 celebrating a bipartisan win and today&#8217;s very non, non bipartisan environment. The final pieces of the grand bargain that got Detroit through municipal bankruptcy were sealed at the conference. So there&#8217;s a whole history of things, both big and small, that kind of come to fruition or get their route started at the conference. 
Zoe Clark: This is going to be the first conference in, well, ever where Democrats are running the show in Lansing. Right. The governor, both chambers of the legislature. Has that changed the dynamic as you put this conference together or expectations of what might happen with this sort of trifecta? 
Sandy Baruah: Regardless, you know who&#8217;s in control, if it&#8217;s the R&#8217;s or the D&#8217;s. We try to program the conference in a very bipartisan way. We take pride in the fact that the Detroit Regional Chamber is a bipartisan business organization. We work with and equally are offended by both sides of the aisle.  The way it does changes is that obviously when you know, when you have Democrats in control or Republicans control, you will see more of that party on stage. Like, for example, our governor and the mayor of Detroit, both Democrats, they&#8217;re going to be featured. If they were Republicans, you would see them as Republicans. 
Zoe Clark: Matt, what are you most looking forward to from the conference this year? 
Matt Elliot: I&#8217;m very excited about a lot of the speakers. You know, I have our CEO Brian Moynihan coming. He&#8217;ll talk about how &#8216;The Power of And&#8217; impacts our company and the work that we do around the world. Liz Cheney, we&#8217;ve mentioned, will also be there. And what we&#8217;re hoping is that those speakers, but also many of the panelists, drive a dialog that sounds different and lasts longer, frankly, and as Sandy said, should leave, should go beyond the porch, should go beyond the island, because we really want to sort of start conversations that drive forward for more and&#8217;s for the state of Michigan. 
Zoe Clark: Sandy, what are you most looking forward to? 
Sandy Baruah: I am really looking forward to this kind of this umbrella theme that Matt has created about &#8216;The Power of And&#8217;. Knitting things together. You know, we need to move as Michiganders away from trying to address our challenges and address our opportunities through purely a programmatic approach. We need to set an umbrella. What is the culture in which these programs are taking place? What is our North Star? So tying together or weaving together these multiple and&#8217;s to create a bigger picture for a bigger strategy?
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2023 Mackinac Policy Conference emphasizes collaborative solutions with ‘The Power of And’

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As the baton of the workforce is passed from one generation to the next, Gen Z emerges as a powerful force, bringing their unique perspectives and aspirations to the table. Born between the mid-1990s and early 2010s, Gen Z is approaching higher education and their future careers with a fresh mindset, seeking practical skills and hands-on experiences that will empower them in an ever-evolving job market.
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Unlike previous generations, the cohort values flexibility, purpose and meaningful connection in their careers, prioritizing work-life balance and personal growth. As they embark on their professional journeys, Gen Z has high hopes for a future where their work aligns with their passions, enables positive societal impact and fosters constant learning. Statistics from a <a href="https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/us/Documents/consumer-business/welcome-to-gen-z.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deloitte and Network of Executive Women (NEW) poll</a> shows that 77% of Gen Z said they would prefer to work for a company that shared similar values as they do.
While many factors may influence their career decisions, including opportunities elsewhere, a significant question still remains: Will they choose to stay in Michigan, their home state, to pursue their dreams and contribute to the state&#8217;s growth?
In partnership with the <a href="https://www.michiganlearning.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan Learning Channel</a>, One Detroit producer and <a href="https://twitter.com/YeaitsmewillG" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Future of Work host Will Glover</a> sat down with three members of Gen Z — Brooke Snow, Samantha Chiang and Kendall Murray — to talk about how they and their peers are approaching higher education, their hopes for the future, what they wanted from employers and a career, and whether they saw themselves staying in Michigan after graduation.
This town hall continues One Detroit&#8217;s <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/future-of-work/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cumulative, ongoing conversation</a> involving the future of work and workforce development in Michigan. Livestream this town hall on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/onedetroit">One Detroit&#8217;s Facebook</a> page, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1hugCLs8k8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YouTube</a> and at the top of this page.
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Brooke Snow, College Freshman, &#8216;The Career Center&#8217; Student
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Samantha Chiang, High School Senior, &#8216;The Career Center&#8217; Student
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Kendall Murray, College Freshman, Welding Major
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Wareologie, a <a href="https://www.wareologie.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan-based medical device company</a>, is making waves in the healthcare industry with its groundbreaking advancements in mobile and at-home caregiving. Led by innovative founder Gina Adams, the company has pioneered a range of innovative products that are transforming the lives of patients and caregivers alike.  
With products such as the revolutionary <a href="https://www.wareologie.com/product/new-improved-magnetic-button-adaptor-dressing-aid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Buttons 2 Button Magnetic Adapter Set</a> and <a href="https://www.wareologie.com/parallel-bars/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Portable Parallel Bars</a> for physical therapy, Wareologie’s efforts to redefine the landscape of accessible and convenient healthcare solutions don’t go unnoticed easily. The company is quickly becoming a trailblazer in the field of assistive technology. 
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One Detroit Producer <a href="https://twitter.com/WillofMichigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Will Glover</a>, host of One Detroit’s Future of Work series, met up with Adams at the Centrepolis Accelerator, where Wareologie began as a startup, to talk about the inspiration behind her products and the process of getting them to market.  
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They talk about the inspiration she’s found from her parents’ struggles as they aged, the difficulty of creating a commercial product, the resources the state could provide to help startups, and the importance of keeping the company in Michigan to promote job growth in the state.  
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Will Glover, @WillofMichigan: After my future work conversation with Dan Radomski, the founder of Michigan&#8217;s only manufactured product incubator, Centrepolis Accelerator. I wanted to talk to a company they had worked with in health care, because this is a sector that will need to grow its workforce and innovate to meet the needs of a large and aging Michigan population. So Dan suggested I talk to Gina Adams, CEO of Wareologie, who&#8217;s an innovator in the healthcare space who first found success with buttons 2 button magnetic adapter. A no-cell solution for converting shirt buttons into magnetic closures. What was the initial inspiration behind buttons 2 button? Where did this idea come from? 
Gina Adams, Founder &amp; CEO, Wareologie: Thank you for asking. My stepfather was struggling with Parkinson&#8217;s and there&#8217;s a ripple effect on caregivers such as my mom. And so it&#8217;s not only that physical impact, but the emotional toll it takes when you have somebody as, you know, my stepfather was a Ph.D. engineer. And so, to lose any sense of independence, he was our rock of the family. And so, to take one activity that he could regain and do independently, that eally impacts a person&#8217;s emotional well-being. That&#8217;s really the impetus behind it. 
Will Glover: With the success of Buttons 2 Button, Gina has introduced another product, portable parallel bars for physical therapy, a mobile therapy solution on wheels that delivers physical therapy treatment safely. But getting it into the hands of the people who need it the most poses challenges that, if addressed, could give other Michigan healthcare product companies an edge in the global healthcare market. Do you think that there&#8217;s something that can be done there to make the on-ramp to getting a product manufactured for a small company easier? 
Gina Adams: You know, we&#8217;re in what they call the valley, right? You have the idea. You have to put a lot of money into that to get it through the development phase, the prototype phase. And then when you move into commercialization, everything takes on a whole new, I would say, cost. 
Will Glover: Right. Yeah. 
Gina Adams: So, you know what the state could provide for us, I believe, is a little more access to that runway of how do you get your product commercialized and into the market. You can&#8217;t do it alone. The windows are pretty tight because of the networks. I&#8217;ve been to the doctor over eight times, getting all of my vaccines, like hepatitis and typhoid and all of these things so that I could actually walk into a hospital and service the hospital as a vendor. So there&#8217;s a lot of these hoops that I feel while they are there and the protocols are important because you need safety in place, but for medical devices, we&#8217;re really trying to revolutionize people&#8217;s health. It would be great if there was an incubator that kind of supported that. 
Will Glover: Something to help navigate the process overall? 
Gina Adams: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I was at a conference and we&#8217;re there with large global medical wholesale suppliers and, you know, getting a foot in the door is not always easy. 
Will Glover:  As you&#8217;re going through this journey, as you&#8217;re developing these products, as you&#8217;re building this company, you&#8217;ve stayed here in Michigan. 
Gina Adams: Well, we&#8217;re based here in southeast Michigan and have incredible access to world-class manufacturing. And there&#8217;s no better place to develop a product, in my opinion. The opportunity to create jobs here in our home state is really important to us. And because we are committed to helping people with disabilities, we are excited to also partner with not only our manufacturers but down to the people that kit our products. 
So the first product buttons 2 button actually kitted by people with disabilities as a form of job creation. It&#8217;s great to have the opportunity to collaborate directly with your manufacturers so that we are building together. There&#8217;s a lot of lessons learned along the way, and to take a product from a prototype that&#8217;s 3D printed into a commercialized product is a huge leap. And so, working here with incredible manufacturers has really helped expedite the process, versus, I can&#8217;t imagine the cost of going overseas. Whether they&#8217;re in a bed or they&#8217;re in a wheelchair and standing up, now you have something that is structurally&#8230;.. 
Will Glover: In the next five years. What do you hope for the future of work at your company? 
Gina Adams: You know, the next five years are going to be so exciting because we know that we have sales verticals within the V.A. We have hospitals that have given us the thumbs up. They have use for it. It&#8217;s a matter of going through those protocols. If we can help people get standing sooner and safer, we&#8217;re going to be in a great spot. 
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A nonprofit that supports Black-led businesses is gearing up for its annual weeklong bike ride to  Mackinaw City to raise awareness for its cause. <a href="https://www.blackleadersdetroit.org/">Black Leaders Detroit’s</a> annual Ride for Equity, which kicks off May 21 this year, will raise money for African American entrepreneurs in Detroit and spread awareness about the importance of equitable funding practices. 
<a href="https://www.bldrideforequity.org/event/ride-for-equity-2023/e459544">The ride</a> includes several individual one-day bike rides, varying in distance, as well as the full seven-day ride from Detroit to Mackinaw City. Volunteers can sign up through May 11 for the ride.  
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As part of One Detroit’s Future of Work coverage, One Detroit producer and Future of Work host <a href="https://twitter.com/WillofMichigan">Will Glover</a> sat down with Black Leaders Detroit CEO Dwan Dandridge for a discussion about the organization’s annual fundraiser and the importance of having diverse leadership in Michigan’s workforce.  
They talk about how the organization’s annual Ride for Equity supports Detroit’s Black-owned businesses and spreads awareness for racial equity in business. Plus, they talk about who needs a seat at the decision-making tables if Michigan wants to attract and retain a young, educated workforce for the future. 
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Will Glover, @WillofMichigan: First things first, what is Black Leaders Detroit? What is the goal? 
Dwan Dandridge, Co-Founder &amp; CEO, Black Leaders Detroit: So, the way I typically describe it, Will, is we are a funding vehicle for black entrepreneurs operating in the city of Detroit. And we pretty much provide funding in two different ways. We have grants and we also do a no-interest loan. 
Will Glover: Who are you providing these resources to and what is the overall goal? Because it&#8217;s not something that is common a no-interest loan. 
Dwan Dandridge: Right. Yeah, it&#8217;s funny because I was at the Eastern Market the other day and I was talking to an entrepreneur who said that he recently applied for a no-interest loan and he said that, you know, he saw it last year but didn&#8217;t believe it was real, right?
Because they almost never exist, or at least not for us. It&#8217;s targeted for, again, black entrepreneurs in the for-profit sector that are running their businesses in Detroit. Our largest loan amount right now is 25 K, and we have distributed $1.5 million through our grants and no-interest loans, so far. And we&#8217;re really excited because we had a record quarter this year and we&#8217;re set to break that record in this quarter that we&#8217;re working on right now based on the applications that we have been receiving. 
Will Glover: Tell us a little bit about the Ride For Equity, what it is, what the message is. 
Dwan Dandridge: The Ride For Equity is it&#8217;s a seven-day ride, 377 miles across the state. So we ride from Detroit to Mackinaw the week before the Mackinac Policy Conference every year. And it&#8217;s an effort to raise awareness for our cause, as well as a fundraiser for the organization and the work that we do. So, if you&#8217;re not a real cyclist or someone who likes to ride long distances, you can come out and support us By joining the kickoff ride.
We do a short, slow-paced police escort ride from U of D College, right up Livernoise to the grocery store at the corner of Nine Mile Livernoise Ferndale Foods. We have a little celebratory little, you know, wave and goodbye. And those of us that are riding longer distances, we carry on from there to Flint. Everybody else turns around with the same police escort and head back. It&#8217;s more of a party than it is a ride, you know, that portion of it. But it gets really serious. 
And one of the things that we do in several cities over the course of those seven days, is we add community conversations that we call “Speak for Yourself”, and we invite people from some of the cities to come out and have honest conversations with us about what does it mean to be good neighbors to one another across boundaries and borders, but also honest conversations about equity and how that shapes out, and plays out and our role in creating it. 
Will Glover: If we could craft a message that could really explain to people the benefits of being here and also explain to leadership what wraparound services are necessary, what people are looking for, for the place they want to build their career in life. What do you think Southeast Michigan, Detroit would be if we were able to harness those things? 
Dwan Dandridge: Oh, I think that we would be like that space that you and I have in our mind, right? Like a place where, you know, the young Dwan wouldn&#8217;t have to wait and find a back door or a cracked window to success to fit in through. Right? Like the front door would be accessible to me. I think the decision-makers that are at the table shaping the ideas need to reflect the neighborhoods. I think that they will be able to speak directly into– and say, Hey, here is how you would have been able to attract me. 
So, I think it&#8217;s some of the onus and responsibility are on some of the young Detroiters that love Detroit to make sure that they are at the table forging relationships and applying the pressure. Because they know what it would take to recruit their peers. We just need to make sure that they have a seat at the table and they need to be really honest when they&#8217;re at the table.  And there&#8217;s always that that rub in that pressure to say, Hey, if I&#8217;m too honest, will I get uninvited from the table? You know what I mean?
I think that, you know, they need to let go of that pressure and realize that the table needs them. My personal opinion on that is, if the real, authentic Dwan is not welcome, I want to find out as quick as possible and get uninvited. Because it&#8217;s time out for wearing a mask. Like we shouldn&#8217;t be code-switching in Detroit. You know, folks should be code-switching for us, right? That&#8217;s just my opinion. 
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">A livestream conversation about preparing future workers for the impact of autonomous technology on the workplace</h2>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">One Detroit and the Detroit Economic Club partner to examine placemaking and urban design in Detroit</h2>
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As major cities like Detroit seek to mitigate losses and return with a pattern of growth, the importance of mixed-use developments is at the forefront of revival to ensure a city can attract businesses and employees for the future of work. It&#8217;s becoming critical to apply thoughtful urban design practices to these developments and encourage company engagement within the city as a way to redefine working downtown.
Join us for a Future of Work town hall at noon Wednesday, April 19 to explore how thoughtful urban design may help metro Detroit&#8217;s vibrancy return to pre-pandemic levels.
One Detroit contributors <a class="Hyperlink SCXW18598711 BCX0" href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#stephen" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Stephen Henderson</a>, host of American Black Journal, and <a class="Hyperlink SCXW18598711 BCX0" href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#nolan" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Nolan Finley</a>, editorial page editor of the Detroit News, sit down with special guests Matt Rossetti, the CEO and president of <a href="https://www.rossetti.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ROSSETTI</a>, and Amy Chesterton, an urban planning partner with ROSSETTI to talk about the status of placemaking in Detroit.
Our co-hosts and panelists discuss the value of adding high-quality public spaces around Detroit, innovative work-live models where homes, offices and amenities all reside in the same building, the strategies other major metropolitan areas are using to attract new businesses, and ultimately what employees want to get out of work and the places they live.
This conversation was produced in partnership with the <a href="https://www.econclub.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Economic Club</a>. The town hall continues One Detroit’s <a class="Hyperlink SCXW108138021 BCX0" href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/future-of-work/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">cumulative, ongoing conversation</a> involving the future of work and workforce development in Michigan. Livestream this town hall on <a class="Hyperlink SCXW108138021 BCX0" href="https://www.facebook.com/onedetroit" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">One Detroit’s Facebook</a> page, <a class="Hyperlink SCXW108138021 BCX0" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLHCbw9fG84" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">YouTube</a> and at the top of this page. 
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<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-23616" src="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/1D19_Stephen1_web.jpg" alt="Stephen Henderson headshot " width="250" height="250" />Stephen Henderson is the current host of <a href="http://www.americanblackjournal.org/">American Black Journal</a>, WDET’s <a href="https://wdet.org/shows/detroit-today/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Today</a> and former Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial page editor of The Detroit Free Press. A Detroit native, Henderson is a graduate of University of Detroit Jesuit High School and the University of Michigan. He has worked previously as a reporter, editorial writer and editor at the Baltimore Sun, the Chicago Tribune and the Knight Ridder Washington bureau, where he covered the Supreme Court from 2003-2007.
Henderson’s work has been honored with more than a dozen national awards, including for work that is published in the book, “Best Newspaper Writing 2001.” Henderson connects to readers and viewers with perspective and passionate opinion. Follow Stephen on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/SHDetroit" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@SHDetroit</a>.
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<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-23645 size-full" src="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Nolan-250x250-1.png" alt="Nolan Finley headshot" width="250" height="250" />Nolan Finley is Editorial Page Editor of <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/staff/2646740001/nolan-finley/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Detroit News</a>, a position he’s held since May 1, 2000. He directs the expression of the newspaper’s editorial position on various national and local issues and also writes a column in the Thursday and Sunday newspapers. Prior to that, Finley was the newspaper’s Deputy Managing Editor, directing the newsroom. Previously, he served as Business Editor, and in various editing positions on the city, state and metro desks. He was also a reporter, covering Detroit City Hall during the Coleman Young administration.
Finley has been with the newspaper since 1976, starting as a copy boy in the newsroom while a student at Wayne State University. Nolan also co-hosts <a href="http://www.onedetroitpbs.org">One Detroit</a> show on <a href="http://www.dptv.org">Detroit Public Television</a> and often appears on Flashpoint on WDIV. He is a graduate of both Schoolcraft College in Livonia and Wayne State, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in journalism. Follow Nolan on Twitter <a href="http://www.twitter.com/NolanFinleyDN" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@NolanFinleyDN</a>.
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<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-29964" src="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Matt-Rossetti-Headshot-e1681325919621.png" alt="Matt Rossetti" width="250" height="270" />As a third-generation architect, Matt’s design education and training were instrumental in different ways to provide macro and micro experiences. He adopted the practice of ‘serious fun,’ an expression that integrates intense design rigor with a unifying, collegial process.
As CEO and President of ROSSETTI, Matt believes architecture and design must move beyond the parameters of form and function. To apply this philosophy to his practice, he created a highly prescriptive technique of discovery to unlock the project vision and value proposition for clients.
At the forefront of data analytics, Matt’s Return on Design process forms the basis for defining the feasibility of each project. This strategic design methodology has led to highly innovative and transformative projects.
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Her creative, grounded approach ensures plans and initiatives are implementable with widespread community support.
She is a powerhouse of creative urban planning and an inspiring team leader, melding design and economic development to create plans for highly livable, vibrant, successful and sustainable communities.
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Millennials make up the <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/04/11/millennials-largest-generation-us-labor-force/">largest share of the U.S. workforce</a> — the generation is expected to make up 75% of the global workforce by 2025 — and the future of work in Michigan will depend upon keeping young professionals here. So, how can business leaders and key stakeholders convince millennials to plant their roots in Michigan? 
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One Detroit producer and <a href="https://twitter.com/YeaitsmewillG">Future of Work host Will Glover</a> sat down with <a href="https://letsdetroit.com/career-profile/marjace-miles/">Marjace Miles of Let’s Detroit</a>, who works within Ford Motor Company’s Marketing Leadership Program, about millennial migration trends in the workforce and his efforts to attract more young professional millennials to Michigan.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> 
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They talk about Miles’ personal journey and what made him choose to stay in Michigan after college, as well as his ambassador work with Let’s Detroit helping to attract young professionals to Detroit for the long term. Plus, they discuss the misconceptions many non-Michigan residents may have about the state and how businesses in the state can invest in and attract millennials to Michigan’s workforce. 
This conversation comes from One Detroit’s Future of Work town hall “Millennials on the Move: Making Michigan Home.” Watch the full town hall <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/one-detroit/millennials-on-the-move-making-michigan-home-future-of-work-town-hall/">on-demand now.</a> 
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Will Glover, Producer, One Detroit: Just tell us about a little bit of your journey. Were you born and raised here? Have you been here the whole time? Have left and come back?  
Marjace Miles, Let&#8217;s Detroit/Ford Motor Company: Yeah. So, yep, born and raised here in Metro Detroit. Spent most of my life in Oak Park. I went to Ferndale high school for high school. Went to Wayne State University for undergrad. I went to the University of Michigan Law School of Business for my MBA. So, Michigan, Michigan, Michigan. 
Will Glover: What about Southeast Michigan, the Detroit area has kept you here? Because, again, you have options. 
Marjace Miles: Marketing and marketing within an automotive industry was really appealing to me. I mean, that&#8217;s an industry that is growing and evolving each day. And so, for me, what&#8217;s best for my career and what&#8217;s best for my family, is chasing after that. 
Will Glover: In your experience, because you&#8217;ve been here, you&#8217;ve been in the industry and you&#8217;ve played multiple roles in the industry as well. Have you seen that there are opportunities for millennials who are at a professional level as you are? Has that been something that you&#8217;ve noticed? Like, you know, obviously you&#8217;re doing well, but there are other opportunities for people. 
Marjace Miles: For so long. we&#8217;re expecting that big fish that, you know, Amazon World headquarters 2.0, remember when that discussion happened? But that&#8217;s not how we&#8217;re set up, not as a region, not as a city. We&#8217;re set up like the bad boys. We&#8217;re set up like the Pistons, where you have one small piece added to another piece, added another piece. 
Will Glover: Part of one of the things you do, as we said also in the open, is your work with Let&#8217;s Detroit. You said you&#8217;ve been doing that for a couple of years. So, just tell us, for those who are unaware, what is Let&#8217;s Detroit, and what your role is as an ambassador?
Marjace Miles: Yeah, Let&#8217;s Detroit is a part of the Detroit Chamber of Commerce and really, Let&#8217;s Detroit is just a connector. Detroit, metro Detroit it&#8217;s small to us locals but for transplants, people trying to enter this area, it can be pretty big. I mean, it&#8217;s hard to find your network, the best companies to work for, places to visit, organizations to create an impact on. And what Let&#8217;s Detroit&#8217;s goal is, is to make that easier. They want to connect young professionals, like myself, to other young professionals, point blank period.
What they&#8217;re finding is, we can Google best restaurants to go to, you can linkedIn best places to work, but when it comes from somebody that&#8217;s experienced it, myself, it is more impactful. I&#8217;ll give you examples: I&#8217;m a black male, I&#8217;m married, I live in the suburbs, I work in automotive. That&#8217;s my experience, it&#8217;s unique and I can share that gospel of Detroit with, let&#8217;s say ten people at different bars and networking events, but that only goes so far. What Let&#8217;s Detroit is equipped to do, is amplify that. 
Will Glover: What kind of difference does it make to actually have a real-life person help you figure these things out when you&#8217;re essentially considering and looking into what is a major life shift? 
Marjace Miles: This might be a millennial answer, but I think connections are important. I mean, as we&#8217;re making these decisions, it&#8217;s a lot harder to leave an area if you have those emotional and real connections to the area. And the only way to create it is not through a Google search, it&#8217;s with somebody like myself or other Let&#8217;s ambassadors showing you around. I&#8217;ll give one example not directly associated with Let&#8217;s Detroit, but at Ford, we have interns. They come in every year for 11 weeks. Over the last few years, they&#8217;ve been remote. We&#8217;ve only got a chance to bring them here for a week at a time or even a weekend at a time. 
Last year, when we had our interns come in for only four days, well, first of all, we packed so much until four days, I don&#8217;t know how they survived. We floated the Huron River, we took them to the DIA, we took them to sporting events, we had a barbecue. But, the amount of time that people said,  &#8220;I did not know Detroit has so much to offer.&#8221; &#8220;Wow. I did not know that the riverfront was so cool.&#8221; I didn&#8217;t know, and this is a quote, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know Michigan had beaches.&#8221;
Will Glover: How often do you encounter that type of thing? Because when you say someone was unaware that Michigan has beaches and Michigan has the world&#8217;s largest freshwater coastline, it just doesn&#8217;t&#8211; is that a common thing where people are just lacking what we think is basic information about this place? 
Marjace Miles: 100 percent. And it&#8217;s because for so long we haven&#8217;t controlled our narrative. I mean, there&#8217;s been stuff in the news, we can go into the social, political climate and things like that if we wanted to. But at the end of the day, the news has controlled what is Detroit, what is Michigan for way too long. And until we get to a place where we&#8217;re taking that narrative back, that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going to happen. 
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Growing Michigan’s millennial workforce with Let’s Detroit ambassador Marjace Miles

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Henry Ford College and <a href="https://wayne.edu/">Wayne State University</a> have teamed up to help clear some of the existing hurdles higher education students face when seeking a four-year degree. A new initiative, titled “<a href="https://www.hfcc.edu/news/2022/henry-ford-college-and-wayne-state-university-announce-guaranteed-transfer-partnership">Henry Ford College Learn4ward and Wayne State Transfer Pathways</a>,” will provide Henry Ford College students, once they’ve completed their associate degree, guaranteed admission and a full credit transfer to Wayne State University as a junior to earn a bachelor’s degree.  
Students must earn a cumulative 2.5 or higher GPA on a minimum of 60 credits, as well as earn their associate degree, to be eligible for the transfer. The new program also supports <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/leo/initiatives/sixty-by-30-initiatives#:~:text=Our%20goal%3A%20Increase%20the%20number,businesses%20and%20our%20state's%20prosperity">Michigan’s 60&#215;30 initiative</a> to increase the number residents who have a four-year degree or professional credentials to 60% by 2030.  
One Detroit Producer and <a href="https://twitter.com/WillofMichigan">Future of Work host Will Glover</a> sat down with Henry Ford College <a href="https://www.hfcc.edu/president/bio">President Russell Kavalhuna</a> about the impact the program will have on the future of education and work in Michigan. They talk about how the program could make Michigan’s workforce more competitive, the renewed focus on higher education across the state, how the program helps Michigan’s 60&#215;30 goal, and where Southeast Michigan residents can learn more. 
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Will Glover, @WillofMichigan, Producer, One Detroit: Let&#8217;s just start with the very basics. What is it? What is the overall goal of the program? 
Russ Kavalhuna, President, Henry Ford College: The overall goal of the program is Michigan needs to get more competitive in many respects. But one respect is those citizens who have a four-year degree. And that&#8217;s because, across the country, states are starting to count how many heads they have in their state as a percentage with four-year degrees. Now, Michigan happened to start this race behind. We were in the bottom third. Now we&#8217;re making up ground. But the truth is, at least on this metric, Michigan has now decided across bipartisan divides that we need to have more four-year degrees. 
Now, the role we play in that is to help a lot of people who are contemplating whether they should or can attend college. We are an open-access institution that has very few barriers. We&#8217;re in your neighborhood, our cost is low, our programs are wide. And when you get to our college, you get your way through at least two years of college. And then, if we&#8217;re going to start making ground in this race against other states for four-year degrees, we have to see our students on to the four-year degree institutions. 
And so, we lie at that intersection between four-year degree institutions and ours, and there were barriers there. So, we went about trying to attack those barriers. And we&#8217;re pretty excited that this almost eliminates every barrier that a student at HFC would see as they move to Wayne State University or other four-year degree institutions. 
Will Glover: Why does it feel like it&#8217;s taken so long for institutions to get to this point where you guys are, where you&#8217;re trying to make this a streamlined process? Is it the motivating factor of what the state needs, what the economy and employers here need? 
Russ Kavalhuna: I can&#8217;t speak to why it hasn&#8217;t happened before. I can speak to how it has started to happen, and it&#8217;s become the focus that we have on students. Historically, higher education has not been as focused on what helps students, and right now that is the future of higher education. So, we&#8217;ve spent a lot of time trying to understand the hurdles that students face that stop them from getting to that college credential that we need to have a higher percentage of our citizens having. And one of them is the things you just mentioned. 
Our students will work hard, work well in the classroom, work at home, taking care of family. A lot of our students work really hard to get these 60 credits in their associate degree, and then they face more hurdles to move to four-year degree institutions. And some of those hurdles were, How many credits will I take with me? I spent a lot of time and money on those credits. Will I have to ask for permission? And what if they say no? Because a lot of my students are first-generation either Americans or college students like my dad was. And it&#8217;s a serious question, will they say no? And no one wants to be told no.
 So, we went right at those two hurdles after hearing our students say, &#8220;These are the hurdles that we have moving from Henry Ford College to Wayne State University.&#8221; And with this agreement, if they get through Henry Ford College and show academic success, they don&#8217;t have to worry about being told no when they ask for admission at Wayne State. And if they collect 60 credits, they don&#8217;t have to worry about whether those 60 credits travel with them. And that is really focusing on students. And that is where we&#8217;re going to make up ground on this 60 by 30, getting 60% of a Michigander population to a post-secondary credential. 
Will Glover: Do you think that that&#8217;s going to be the case? Because sometimes it seems like an obvious solution. But I&#8217;m sure there are other considerations that other higher institutions might have when it comes to maybe the quality of education from one institution to another, whether or not they&#8217;re accepting students that might not be able to fit, or make it, or actually graduate. Do you think that what you guys are doing is going to catch on? 
Russ Kavalhuna: Let me just be blunt, I talk to students a lot, both at universities and community colleges and there is historically an idea that community colleges were for a lesser student, and that couldn&#8217;t be further from the truth. That&#8217;s my experience here, that it&#8217;s not the truth and the experience of my parents who are community college graduates. Community college students have an opportunity to be just as good as anyone else, but they&#8217;re using the access portal that we have, which has a low barrier for cost and a low barrier for geographic distance from your home.
And I know that because when I talked to President Wilson, I said, &#8220;Look at the students that we bring you. They perform as well or better than the students that started with you at the beginning of university.&#8221; And President Wilson, like any other very sharp leader, knew that to be true, checked it to be true. But still, we said, &#8220;We don&#8217;t have any interest to send you students who are going to come to your institution having left and report to college and then not be successful with you. And so, you tell us, partner at Wayne State University and any other institution that we would gain this kind of agreement with, you tell us what we can do to show that these students are ready for your institution.&#8221; 
And Wayne State decided to say, &#8220;We want you to bring us students with a 2.5 grade point average at Henry Ford College.&#8221; Now, it was helpful to show Wayne State the data that when we bring students because we do 300 to 400 a year, when those students come over to them with 2.5 or higher, they are successful. And in many instances more than the students who started at Wayne State University. So, that was a quick way for both partners to feel like it was going to be successful. And that makes me believe, to answer to your ultimate question, that this can catch on. 
Will Glover: Is there anything that you would like to share with people that would be particularly useful? Or how they might get in touch and get put into this pipeline and how they can get a pathway forward for themselves? 
Russ Kavalhuna: If you or anyone in your sphere is contemplating whether college is for them, reach out to me. I have publicly committed, anyone who contacts me by email will get a personal response. It is statistically proven that if you invest in yourself in higher education, you will be healthier, you&#8217;ll be wealthier, and you&#8217;ll be happier. 
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Wayne State University, Henry Ford College create transfer pathway to earn four-year degree

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From early childhood education to auto detailing &amp; refinishing and film production, students at the <a href="https://www.lc-ps.org/schools/hs/pankow-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Frederick V. Pankow Center</a> in Clinton Township, Michigan are getting real job opportunities and advantages in their field through Career &amp; Technical Education (CTE) classes.
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Frederick V. Pankow Center students Alexis and Brianna Schmidt of PBS NewsHour&#8217;s <a href="https://studentreportinglabs.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Student Reporting Labs</a> report on the impact of CTE classes on students&#8217; future jobs. This story recently won &#8220;Best Video&#8221; in the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs 2022 Student Journalism Challenge. See the full list of <a href="https://studentjournalismchallenge.org/competition-winners/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">award winners here</a>.
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How CTE Classes are preparing students for the future

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Hidden from the spotlight until now, Gen Xers have quietly become the next generation of workforce leaders, rising to C-suite level positions, as they take on new roles and talk about hiring for positions that don&#8217;t exist yet. At the same time Gen Xers are juggling the heightened responsibilities at work, they&#8217;re navigating more responsibilities at home as they take care of kids and aging parents. 
As Gen Xers take the helm <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/one-detroit/the-high-cost-of-baby-boomers/">where baby boomers have retired</a>, how will their leadership styles and strengths continue to shape the future of work? <span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> 
One Detroit producer and Future of Work host <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#will">Will Glover</a> spoke to <a href="https://www.michiganworks.org/hundt">Michigan Works Association! CEO Ryan Hundt</a> about what the future looks like with Generation X in charge. They talk about the cohort’s most notable workforce trends, the value of Gen Xers in the office, and how often they’ve been promoted on average compared to other generations.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> 
This conversation comes from One Detroit’s Future of Work town hall <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/one-detroit/gen-x-future-of-work-town-hall/">“Gen X: Picking up the Slack in an Evolving Workforce.”</a> Watch our next Future of Work <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/one-detroit/millennials-on-the-move-making-michigan-home-future-of-work-town-hall/">town hall on millennials</a> Wednesday, March 22 at noon.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> 
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Will Glover, @WillofMichigan: Ryan, let&#8217;s just jump right in. Let&#8217;s set the table. What is the workforce landscape right now for someone who&#8217;s a Gen X? What level of job are they holding? What&#8217;s the next step for them in the workforce? Tell me a little bit about that. 
Ryan Hundt, CEO, Michigan Works! Association: First and foremost, I&#8217;d like to talk about some trends that we&#8217;re seeing right now in the workforce. Just a few years ago, millennials surpassed Gen Xers as the largest generation in workforce in terms of just the sheer volume of workers that are currently engaged in the workforce in 2023. And with Baby Boomers either having retired or staring down retirement themselves, there&#8217;s plenty of older Gen Xers who are also kind of following suit with those Baby Boomers. Maybe they&#8217;re preparing for retirement themselves. We know that for the most part, Gen Xers will be in the workforce again for the next 10 to 30 years. 
So, we need to make sure that they are continuing to have a significant impact in the workforce. Of course they certainly are. Gen Xers are now also entering their prime income ages. We know that typically the age 45 to 54 in the United States is typically the age demographic that sees the largest growth in terms of potential earnings over the course of that time period. So many of are either entering or has entered that prime income age as we speak. In addition to entering their prime income age, they&#8217;re also making up the majority of leadership positions across the workforce. 
That&#8217;s not just here in Michigan or in the United States, but globally Gen Xers make up about 51% of leaders in organizations with an average of about 20 years of work experience. So, they&#8217;ve certainly followed that natural progression of going from entry level positions all the way up through middle management. Now it&#8217;s upper-level management in leadership positions in both the public and private sector. 
Will Glover: How valuable are Gen Xers with that breadth of experience in the workforce already going to be for any kind of organization or company going into the future? Because, you know, they&#8217;re taking up the mantle for Boomers, but they just have so much more experience than a lot of Millennials. 
Ryan Hundt: Really, they are kind of that forgotten middle child between the Baby b=Boomer generation and the Millennials. That&#8217;s just not my take. It&#8217;s not me speaking on my personal opinions, but I let the data speak for itself. Over the last several years, we&#8217;ve seen Gen Xers with an average promotion of only 1.2 promotions over a five-year period. That&#8217;s lower than both Millennials and Baby Boomers. 
Will Glover: What does Michigan need to be doing to make jobs themselves, the work itself more attractive to get people to come here? 
Ryan Hundt: Some things that Michigan can do, and I think Michigan does do quite well and we just really need to double down on those efforts is accentuating those positive attributes of our state. Many people may not know if they live outside of the Midwest, but Michigan has the largest shoreline of fresh water in the country.  And we certainly look at our wonderful assets and our natural beauty is on par with other parts of the state, or other parts of the country, and other parts of the globe, quite frankly. 
So, for folks that are looking for that workplay aspect where you&#8217;re never too far away from some of those outdoor amenities, but we also have a number of cultural assets that we continue to highlight. Institutions of higher learning for folks like myself who are big sports fans, big professional sports teams like the Red Wings, the Tigers, the Lions and the Pistons. Those are all key attributes that we just need to continue highlighting to folks that are outside of Michigan. Not just they come here to tour the state, but hopefully come here and relocate to the state so that we can continue to grow in population in the coming years. 
Will Glover: If we do have a perfect marketing campaign. Pure Michigan is a global phenomenon, it goes viral. All the right things happen for us in the right ways. Are we ready as a state infrastructurally to handle an influx in population and people like that? Do we have the jobs? Do we have the amenities? Do we have the things that we need to get what we&#8217;re asking for? 
Ryan Hundt: We certainly have the jobs. I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s the issue here. We have an average of about 500,000 job openings in Michigan. Similar to many other parts of the country, there is way more job openings compared to the number of individuals searching for jobs. So, the jobs are certainly here. We would certainly encourage anybody that is interested in looking for their next professional journey to take a look at Michigan. We have a range of occupations and industries that are hiring, from advanced manufacturing, to IT, to health-care. 
The jobs are certainly there. I think the infrastructure largely is there, and we are seeing some significant investments that have been outlined, perhaps, for example, in the Governor&#8217;s executive budget recommendations on advancing some objectives and investments into affordable housing, because that is always a concern, not just in Michigan but across the country. If we have workers come in, we need to make sure that they have places where they can live that are affordable, that are not outside of their reach for the salaries and wages that they are currently receiving. 
So, that&#8217;s all very positive news from an infrastructure standpoint. And of course, as I mentioned to you before on this chat today, the cultural amenities, the natural assets are certainly all there as well. I think Michigan is primed for a very significant comeback in terms of population increases over the next few decades. I&#8217;m super bullish on our prospects as a state to reap the benefits of relocations from individuals that might be seeking a new opportunity in a climate like Michigan&#8217;s, that is very favorable toward that growth. 
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<h2 style="text-align: left;">American Black Journal and BridgeDetroit host town hall on Black real estate development</h2>
The real estate development industry is dealing with a representation crisis. According to <a href="https://reports.groveimpact.org/breaking-the-glass-bottleneck/">a new study</a> from the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) and Grove Impact, minority developers — Black and Hispanic — make up less than 1% of the entire real estate industry. African Americans make up 0.4% of the industry, while Hispanic developers represent only 0.16% of the industry.  
These findings point to the constraints many minority developers face trying to enter the industry. In the majority-African American populated city of Detroit, where does the state of Black real estate development stand? 
To find out, &#8220;American Black Journal&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/SHDetroit">host Stephen Henderson</a> leads a virtual town hall on Black real estate development in Detroit, where he examines the challenges residents and developers face at every stage of the process — from the onset through completion.  
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The town hall is broken up into three panels:
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<li>Black Women Developers</li>
<li>Neighborhood Black Developerment</li>
<li>Financing &amp; Other Assistance for Developers</li>
</ol>
Through a series of three panels, town hall panelists examine the barriers for Black real estate developers entering the industry, the lack of access to capital, the gender-based barriers of <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/american-black-journal/black-women-entrepreneurs-face-uphill-battle-for-business-growth-compared-to-men/">being a woman in a male-dominated industry</a>, the fluctuating supply chain around material costs and availability, the impact of inflation, and the shortage of workers that&#8217;s been revealed and exacerbated by the pandemic. 
Plus, panelists discuss some of the solutions that are helping to build up and support Black development in the city, and the benefits that could come from greater diversity in real estate development. By fixing the representation crisis, closing the revenue gap and leveling revenue cliffs for Black and Hispanic developers, <a href="https://reports.groveimpact.org/breaking-the-glass-bottleneck/">The ICIC study</a> estimates that would create more than $106 billion in new revenue each year for the industry as well as create 1.7 million new jobs. 
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<h2>Black Women Developers Panel: </h2>
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Sonya Mays, President &amp; CEO, Develop Detroit
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<h2> Neighborhood Black Development Panel:</h2>
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Jason Headen, Vice President of Detroit Market, CHN Housing Partners
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Richard Hosey, Owner, Hosey Development
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Roderick Hardamon, CEO, URGE Development Group &amp; Urge Imprint
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<h2>Financing &amp; Other Assistance for Developers Panel:</h2>
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Kenyetta Hairston-Bridges, Executive Vice President of Economic Development &amp; Investment Services, Detroit Economic Growth Corporation (DEGC)
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Jeff Mosley, National Equity Development Initiative Program Lead, Capital Impact Partners
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Keona Cowan, Executive Vice President of Lending, Invest Detroit
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FOW_BCAST_Millennials_VOD

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Looking at Michigan&#8217;s workforce, where did all the millennials go? Millennials currently make up the <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/04/11/millennials-largest-generation-us-labor-force/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">largest share of the U.S. workforce</a> and are expected to make up 75% of the global workforce by 2025. Despite the cohort&#8217;s strength in numbers, the workforce isn&#8217;t evenly distributed across the nation, however, with many millennials opting to live in warm-weather destinations and large metropolitan cities as opposed to places like Michigan.
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What impact will this have on states like Michigan, where the population is declining? And how can business leaders and key stakeholders convince millennials to plant their roots in Michigan?
One Detroit producer and <a href="https://twitter.com/YeaitsmewillG" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Future of Work host Will Glover</a> talks with <a href="https://letsdetroit.com/career-profile/marjace-miles/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marjace Miles of Let&#8217;s Detroit</a>, who works within Ford Motor Company&#8217;s Marketing Leadership Program, about millennial migration trends in the workforce and the benefits of being a young professional in Michigan.
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They talk about millennial migration patterns and whether the state has the attractions and opportunities to attract the generation to stay here. They also discuss millennials&#8217; job-hopping trend — <a href="https://www.gallup.com/workplace/231587/millennials-job-hopping-generation.aspx">a recent Gallup poll</a> found that 20% of millennials had changed jobs within the past year, a strikingly higher percentage than elder generations. Plus, they take a look at young professional workforce hubs, like Let&#8217;s Detroit, and talk about the networking opportunities they provide to working millennials.
This town hall continues One Detroit&#8217;s <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/future-of-work/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cumulative, ongoing conversation</a> involving the future of work and workforce development in Michigan. Livestream this town hall on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/onedetroit">One Detroit&#8217;s Facebook</a> page, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1hugCLs8k8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YouTube</a> and at the top of this page.
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This is Miles&#8217; final rotation (of three) as part of the Marketing Leadership Program. He&#8217;s also an ambassador for Let&#8217;s Detroit. Prior to Ford, Miles attended the University of Michigan, receiving an MBA in the spring of 2019.
Born and raised in metro Detroit, Miles has always been a strong advocate for whatever community he calls home. From his undergraduate studies at Wayne State University through today, he has never been able to just do a 9-5 job.
He&#8217;s also involved in various after-work activities; everything from participation in sports leagues, organizing happy hours, volunteering at my local church, joining government boards, and much more. For fun, he enjoys bowling, traveling, and spending time with his family. Miles currently lives in Dearborn, MI with my wife and daughter.
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Glover studied film at Eastern Michigan University and received his Associate Degree in Digital Video Production &amp; Documentary Film from Washtenaw Community College. Whether it’s underwriting voice-overs or producing stories for One Detroit, you’ll hear his voice throughout Detroit Public TV programming. Glover’s focus is on his craft: finding the stories and voices that capture the truth.
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Millennials on the Move: Making Michigan Home | Future of Work Town Hall

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Pingree Detroit, a design and manufacturing cooperative near the city’s Fitzgerald neighborhood, is making the city a better place one recycled good at a time, and they’re doing it all while giving employees stock in the business. <a href="https://pingreedetroit.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The worker-owned business</a> takes recycled materials — leather, seatbelts and airbags for example — and turns them into consumer products like shoes, backpacks, purses, wallets, dog leases and more.  
And if you’d hadn’t heard of them already, there’s a chance you might see them around the city this year. Pingree Detroit Co-Founder Jarret Schlaff says the company wants to host pop-ups frequently at <a href="https://easternmarket.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eastern Market</a> and at events like the <a href="https://www.naias.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Auto Show</a>. 
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<a href="https://twitter.com/WillofMichigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Future of Work host</a> and <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#will" target="_blank" rel="noopener">One Detroit producer Will Glover</a> met with Schlaff at Pingree Detroit’s manufacturing space to talk about the company’s worker-owned business model and how it’s creating new opportunities for residents and veterans to learn valuable skills and share in the company’s success. They also talk about the challenges of being an entrepreneur and the benefits of building a company in Detroit. 
<h2>Full Transcript:</h2>
Will Glover, Host, One Detroit: So let&#8217;s just jump right in. The first thing I would love for you to do is introduce us, our viewers to Pingree, Detroit. So what is Pingree Detroit? What do you guys do? What do you sell? Where do you work? Give me the rundown hanger. 
Jarret Schlaff, Co-founder and CEO, Pingree Detroit: Pingree Detroit. We are an eight-year-old worker-owned design and manufacturing cooperative. Yeah. To celebrate our eighth birthday on January 15th, actually, which is exciting. Thank you.  And so we take materials. So everything from leather to seatbelts, airbags, otherwise destined for the landfill. We keep those out of landfill from the big three and we turn those in everything from the first shoes made in Detroit in the 50s to backpacks, purses, wallets, dog leashes, coasters, and everything in between. 
Will Glover: How is Pingree doing? Are we getting ready to expand? Are we downsizing? Is it business as usual? Where are we headed? What&#8217;s the conditions? 
Jarret Schlaff: So our look would be inspired with a chance of smiles. So we&#8217;re pretty excited. We&#8217;re in a really good spot. So we&#8217;re growing our team. We&#8217;re now about to be joining our 13th member of our team and we&#8217;re worker-owned. So that means that $0.77 of every dollar in profit goes right back to the workers on our team. And as we&#8217;re growing, we&#8217;re now doing more pop-ups. Our goal is 250 in-person activations throughout the year of 2023, which means Eastern Market on weekends. We&#8217;re going to be at the Autorama this month, the auto show again. 
Doing everything from live shoemaking to selling our goods right here in person so folks can touch, feel, smell that new car. We like to say it smells a new car because nearly was. And so we&#8217;re excited to do that. And that really that growth allows to connect, inspire folks, have them be a part of our story and a part of our mission. 
Will Glover: So one of the things you just mentioned is that you&#8217;re a worker-owned company. So for anyone who isn&#8217;t familiar with what that actually means, what is a worker owned company and what made you decide to go that route with Pingree? 
Jarret Schlaff: So worker ownership, some folks are familiar with the term cooperative co-op, right? There&#8217;s energy co-ops, there&#8217;s food co-ops, there&#8217;s RTI where you can go buy your camping supplies. A lot of credit unions. That is a co-op, right?  We have multiple stakeholders where as a worker-owned co-op, we chose to be this type of model because we want to maximize equity and maximize well-being, not just maximizing profit. So we want to be really intentional around designing structures so that when we do well, our team does well, our neighborhoods do well and the environment does well. 
Will Glover: So in this model, how has it been when it comes to attracting talent, retaining talent? Because that&#8217;s if we&#8217;re talking about the future of work and where things are going pretty much across every industry, the narrative is we need more talent, we need more people and we need them to stay.  So how has your business model helped you maintain that talent that you need? 
Jarret Schlaff: By being able to incentivize and offer folks to co-own the company, not just get another job, but like to work to be a part of a meaningful culture, to actually create and benefit from all the small ways that you might make that company better. To not just, you know, maybe you get a bonus and some other companies or sometimes there&#8217;s a stock split, it&#8217;s great. 
You know, we just heard about folks in unions get a nice little bump from certain auto companies. Great. But what if it wasn&#8217;t just a small check? It was regardless of the size of the company, you&#8217;re sharing 77% of profits. Your innovation is celebrated and that could be an additional bump at the end of the year. 
So we really wanted to offer and say, if you&#8217;re going to join our team, maybe you might make a little less per hour than you would if you&#8217;re going to go work in New York or in L.A., But you can be a part of something great. You can be a part of not just making a good wage, but actually making neighborhoods stronger, being a part of a solution-driven environment. 
Will Glover: So what is one thing that could be better about doing business in southeast Michigan? 
Jarret Schlaff: One of the challenges of doing business in Michigan, in Detroit, is there&#8217;s sometimes not the critical mass of people in certain areas. To where we did a pop-up, you know, downtown right now, for instance, we might need to have a thousand conversations over a course of a week to do really well. Well, we might only get a couple of hundred. 
How many folks are actually going to come into our store? So, like for us being in front of enough people with enough consistency for us to be able to accomplish our goal to stay open as a business is really important. And we have consistently had a hard time of just getting in front of enough folks. We have to get really creative and everything from online advertising to more unique activations. So for us, one of the hardest things is just been getting enough support from enough folks consistently. 
Will Glover: What is a good thing about doing business here in southeast Michigan? 
Jarret Schlaff: Yeah, so we often say relationships are our strongest currency and I think that Detroit, one of Detroit&#8217;s strongest currencies is the relationships, the people. There&#8217;s this energy, there&#8217;s this vibe around cooperation more so than competition. Yes, we&#8217;re competing to be our best and bring forth the best thing and sometimes we might have the same product that we&#8217;re offering. But like this equipment behind us was donated to us by Shinola. 
Like their team mentored us when we first were getting started. We&#8217;ve collaborated with hundreds, hundreds of individuals from the get-go. I call myself a co-founder. I&#8217;m the only technical founder, but I would not have started this without hundreds and thousands literally, of conversations of folks offering to take me to coffee and mentor me and sharing this resource and donating this piece of equipment. 
We&#8217;ve found so much energy around cooperation and it&#8217;s allowed us to not only just keep moving forward and sustain, but actually grow. And now we&#8217;re doing the same thing. Our scraps were donated. There&#8217;s over 30 different small entrepreneurs that are getting our scraps and turning them into earrings and other products and majority women of color, majority native Detroiters. So we&#8217;re really focusing on how can we kind of, as we&#8217;re getting pulled from someone in front of us, how can we also pull from behind and really embrace those relationships. 
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Worker-owned Pingree Detroit creates equity, shares success with employees

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They&#8217;re not the silent generation. Hidden from the spotlight until now, Gen Xers (born between 1965 and 1981) have quietly become the next generation of workforce leaders, rising to C-suite level positions, as they take on new roles and talk about hiring for positions that don&#8217;t exist yet.
At the same time Gen Xers are juggling the heightened responsibilities at work, they&#8217;re navigating more responsibilities at home as they take care of kids and aging parents. The generation is characterized by their independence and entrepreneurialism — <a class="Hyperlink SCXW4232948 BCX0" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/nextavenue/2016/09/13/the-undetected-influence-of-generation-x/?sh=5696ccac1efb" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">according to a 2015 study, 55% of startup founders are Gen Xers.</a>
How will this new generation of leaders continue to shape the future of work? One Detroit producer and <a href="https://twitter.com/YeaitsmewillG" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Future of Work host Will Glover</a> talk with <a href="https://www.michiganworks.org/hundt">Michigan Works! Association CEO Ryan Hundt</a> about how much back-filling Generation X will need to manage as some Baby Boomers leave the workforce. 
RELATED: <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/one-detroit/the-high-cost-of-baby-boomers/">Future of Work Town Hall: The High Cost of Baby Boomers</a>
Plus, they discuss what Gen X business leaders and city officials need to focus on to grow Michigan&#8217;s workforce and prepare people for the jobs that don&#8217;t exist yet.
This town hall continues One Detroit&#8217;s <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/future-of-work/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cumulative, ongoing conversation</a> involving the future of work and workforce development in Michigan.
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<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-29029" src="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Ryan_Hundt_Headshot.jpeg" alt="Ryan Hundt" width="250" height="250" srcset="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Ryan_Hundt_Headshot.jpeg 200w, https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Ryan_Hundt_Headshot.jpeg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px" />In his role as Chief Executive Officer, Ryan connects with various stakeholders to generate enthusiasm for workforce development policies and priorities that will positively impact Michigan businesses and workers. To accomplish these objectives, Ryan focuses on building cooperation across the state, while orchestrating the efforts of the Michigan Works! staff, board members, and other stakeholders toward common goals that reflect the needs of the workforce development system. 
Prior to joining the Michigan Works! Association, Ryan spent eight years with the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. Most recently, Ryan served as a Regional Director of Growth &amp; Development at the MEDC, where he led a team focused primarily on business retention and expansion.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Oakland University in 2011.
Ryan believes that anything can be accomplished through teamwork, dedication, and a positive attitude. He uses these characteristics to build strategic working relationships, using a collaborative atmosphere as the foundation for success.
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Biking: it’s more than just exercise. It’s equitable transportation, entertainment and a way for people to be introduced to Detroit and what the city has to offer. That’s the motto that motivates <a href="https://ridetroit.com/jasonhall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">biking advocate Jason Hall</a>, the founder of RiDetroit, the co-founder and former president of Slow Roll Detroit, and the owner and operator of Trek Bicycle Midtown Detroit. 
Hall opened <a href="https://ridetroit.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RiDetroit</a>, an ebike tour company, in 2018 to tap into the potential of electric bikes. Around the same time, Hall was building a community of cyclists every Monday in Detroit through <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyErM_I9Zp8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Slow Roll Detroit</a>. The Slow Roll idea has since expanded to other cities across the nation after Hall and company were featured in a SuperBowl commercial.
During the pandemic, Hall opened Electric Avenue Bikes, Detroit’s first only-ebike shop. In 2022, Hall partnered with Trek Bicycles, converting Electric Avenue Bikes to <a href="https://www.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/retail/detroit_midtown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trek Bicycle Midtown Detroit</a>, bringing the global bicycle retailer to the Motor City.
As Hall has heightened the popularity of biking around Detroit and across the nation, what has been biking’s influence on downtown Detroit? How can biking play a role in Detroit’s post-pandemic recovery? One Detroit contributor<a href="https://twitter.com/SHDetroit"> Stephen Henderson</a>, host of<a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/category/american-black-journal/"> “American Black Journal,”</a> talks with Hall about the importance of having a high-end bike shop in Detroit, and the benefits of biking— the economic benefits for the city, the health benefits for the rider and the environmental benefits for our climate. 
<h2>Full Transcript:</h2>
Stephen Henderson, Host of American Black Journal: Jason Hall, great to see you here at The Detroit Policy Conference.
Jason Hall, Founder, RiDetroit: What is happening, brother?
Stephen Henderson: I mean, we go back so far. Years and years and years. But let’s start with the way that I really know you, which is through biking and all the things that you’ve done around biking in the city of Detroit. We’re here at the Policy Conference where we’re here talking about downtown Detroit.
I feel like two things are true. Biking has really changed Downtown Detroit and Midtown. And Midtown and Downtown have really changed biking in Detroit. But I’m really curious, as somebody who really kicked off the interest in biking in Detroit, how do you see that?
Jason Hall: For once, I can’t give myself the props on this one. I’d like to say I had a little bit to do with it, but I think what really changed biking downtown in Midtown was the bike share. You know, MoGo. The introduction of that. I’ll be honest, when they rolled it out, I’m saying, who’s going to use these? But then all of a sudden you see entire things empty, and you see everybody out on bikes downtown. So, I mean, yeah, Slow Roll might have played into that.
Stephen Henderson: I was going to say, is there someone else that I don’t know, who had thousands of people biking at the same time?
Jason Hall: That might have played a little into it, but I’m going to give it to MoGo on this one. I think them really examining where those kiosks needed to go and putting them in the right places really changed the footprint of downtown.
Stephen Henderson: And all of these things work together. Slow Roll, your event, really got people, not just interested in biking, but interested in the city. I remember the number of people who would come from all over the place on Monday night to bike through Detroit. It wasn’t just about bikes, right? And MoGo, too. It’s about transportation, it’s about entertainment, it’s about the way that the city is kind of changing to welcome people who didn’t feel a part of it before.
Jason Hall: Absolutely. The introduction of that ride really broke down a lot of barriers for people. The fear barrier, all that stuff. When you’re in numbers like that, everybody feels welcome. I think that just gave people a different outlook on what the city is.
Trust me, I do tours nowadays and a lot of people come here, and they have this perception that they’ve always had. But when you get out on a bike and you see everything, you really get to connect with the community. And downtown is a community. Even though people don’t think about it necessarily as a neighborhood, it is a community within itself. And I think it needs bicycling. Absolutely.
Stephen Henderson: So when we think about downtown coming back after the pandemic, lots of people are worried about, not the nightlife part of it, but the daytime part of it. Transportation is a big part of it, right? Like, how people get from one place to the other. Do you see biking playing a different role in this Detroit than in the pre-pandemic Detroit?
Jason Hall: Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Now it’s a different ballgame. The pandemic… Once the governor said, everybody, get out and ride a bike, everybody got out and rode a bike. Well, now all those bikes are somewhere. And it’s my job to not sell them the bike, but now get them on it. So that’s how my role has really changed before.
With Slow Roll even, it was getting people on the bike, getting people out. Like I said, now they know about bikes. Now I have to remind them about the experience and give them different experiences. Downtown riding is completely different than riding in Rouge Park on the bike trails. And so that’s my job. And I embrace that. I love being a part of the educational process and learning about bikes and now let’s learn how it can change your life.
Stephen Henderson: So you have transitioned to a really different role in terms of biking. Part of what you’re talking about there. Tell us what you’re up to though and how that fits in the frame and downtown.
Jason Hall: It’s funny. When I first wanted to open a bike shop, the first thing I said is Detroit needs a Trek-type store. And what I mean by that is we had a lot of bike shops that sold used bikes and sold inexpensive bikes. But we needed a place that sold a top quality, and I hate to say expensive, but a pricier bike. We needed that. And so years ago I said that. Lo and behold, years later, we opened this bike shop in Detroit called The Electric Avenue Bikes, and we specialized in electric bikes. And then Trek buys us. So a month ago, Trek acquired us.
So it’s almost like a weird dream come true because opening a bike shop, you have ideas, but you’re hindered by budget.  Now I work with Trek, which is the best bike maker in the world. And I have access to budgets and marketing that I never would have had access to. So, I always joke if somebody came to me in the old days and said, can I have $1,000? I would’ve said, are you crazy? But now I can say, well, you know what, there’s a grant that I can maybe help you get that money. And so I am very excited about Electric Avenue bikes being acquired by Trek and us having an official Trek store in Detroit.
Stephen Henderson: So for viewers who are not familiar, tell us about the e-bikes. Electric bike. What is that and why is that another step forward in the innovation of getting more people on the bike?
Jason Hall: Absolutely. So the electric bike is an electric pedal assist bike. Exactly how it sounds. There’s a couple of different kinds. There’s a kind that does have a throttle, but we don’t deal with that because we want people to ride the bike. So when you introduce assistance to someone, they’re not aware of what that is. And what that is just a little bit of extra boost that you can add to your ride.
Now, it sounds very simple, but imagine you’re a seventy-year-old person, you haven’t written a bike in 20 years, and you’re intimidated by getting back on that bike because you know you might not have the power to make that move. Well, now you’ve got assistance. So now I can break down that barrier of fear and I can say, let’s get on the bike and see. I’ve seen 70, 80-year-old people get on bikes and a week later call me and say, I just did my first 20 miles that I’ve done in 20 years. That’s what the electric bike does. It opens the door for people to come back.
And it also opens the door for new experiences. What we tell people is that you can go further, faster. So you can imagine… When I tell people I ride 100 miles a day, they look at me like I’m crazy. I do everything on my electric bike. It has replaced my car.
Stephen Henderson: That’s the thing, right? Does it feed into the energy we depend on? All these other things. It’s about conservation and all of those things in addition to training.
Jason Hall:  Absolutely. I tell people all the time, we’re not trying to replace your bike. We’re trying to replace your car. If all those trips that you take that are a mile, five miles, you should not be starting a car. If we can get you on a bike and show you once you get an e-bike, how easy it is.
And we talked about cargo bikes. I can throw everything in a cargo bike now. My groceries, everything. Now, I’m not paying the ridiculous gas prices. I get to call my insurance company and say I don’t really even drive the car. So we’re talking about financial, but then we’re also going to talk about how I used to weigh 240 pounds and I’m down to 185. So there’s too many benefits to not be involved in this movement.
Stephen Henderson: Alright, Jason, great to see you. Great to see you doing great things for the city of Detroit.
Jason Hall: It is amazing. You’re talking about me. Every time I turn on the radio, I’m like that’s my neighbor right there. I love it, brother. I love it.
Stephen Henderson: Thanks for being here.
Jason Hall: No problem.
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Biking around Detroit: Jason Hall on the benefits of riding through the Motor City

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As cities and downtowns continue to navigate post-pandemic recovery, downtown Detroit&#8217;s recovery has been night and day, literally. While nightlife activity has nearly fully returned to pre-pandemic levels, weekday activity has been slow to return to downtown Detroit, having an impact on business and the city&#8217;s overall economic recovery.
Lending a financial perspective to the conversation about downtown Detroit&#8217;s post-pandemic recovery, <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/bios/matt-elliott/#:~:text=President%2C%20Bank%20of%20America%20Michigan,Banking%20at%20Bank%20of%20America." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bank of America Michigan President Matt Elliott</a> sits down with One Detroit contributor <a href="https://twitter.com/SHDetroit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Henderson</a>, host of <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/category/american-black-journal/">&#8220;American Black Journal,&#8221;</a> to talk about the elements —health equity, upskilling and driving small business, to name a few —Elliott thinks is important for Detroit&#8217;s recovery.
They also talk about Michigan&#8217;s housing stock, housing affordability, and the bank&#8217;s <a href="https://www.bankofamerica.com/mortgage/affordable-loan-solution-mortgage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Affordable Loan Solution</a> program that helps Detroiters become homeowners. Plus, Elliott, who is chairing the <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/mackinac-policy-conference/mpc-2023/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2023 Mackinac Policy Conference</a>, gives a preview of what&#8217;s in store for the annual conference, including this year&#8217;s theme: &#8220;The Power of And.&#8221;
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Stephen Henderson, Host of American Black Journal: Matt Elliot, welcome to the Detroit Policy Conference and to Detroit Public Television.
Matt Elliot, President, Bank of America Michigan: Thank you. Great to be here, Stephen.
Stephen Henderson: So before we start, I have to tell our viewers that you&#8217;re about to play a huge role in the policy conference world. You&#8217;re going to be in charge of the policy conference up north on Mackinac this spring.
Matt Elliot: Yeah. Grateful enough and lucky enough to be the chair of the Mackinac Policy Conference this year.
Stephen Henderson: So let&#8217;s talk about what we&#8217;ve been talking about here, which is downtown Detroit and how it recovers from the pandemic. I keep saying that it&#8217;s kind of six in one hand and half a dozen in another. Night time, it&#8217;s not that different anymore. I mean, you go down there and there&#8217;s a lot of activity. Daytime, not as much. And I have real worries about that. As a banker though, I&#8217;m really curious about how you see the recovery and the key levers to pull to make sure we get back to where we were before.
Matt Elliot: First of all, I think we have to acknowledge the fact that the world is different than it was pre-pandemic. And so getting back to where we were before may mean something different. I do think, though, that Richard Florida, who is here talking about the new role of what downtowns are for was interesting. And we&#8217;re, as Detroiters, very well positioned. He said this isn&#8217;t the central business district. He said central connecting district, which I think is a really great metaphor for what you and I see when we are downtown.
Number one. Number two, I think that some of the things that we need to keep doing, frankly, are aligned with what we&#8217;re doing at Bank of America to help drive economic mobility, especially in communities of color. But stay focused on things like health and health equity, because you can&#8217;t be economically mobile if you&#8217;re not helping job reskilling and upskilling.
So filling these gaps that we know we have between the skills employers need and the skills that are available. Focusing, thirdly, on small business and helping drive that forward, because that&#8217;s going to help our downtown as well. All these small businesses are really key employers and they also knit together neighborhoods, which is really important.
And then the last thing is affordable housing. You&#8217;ve got to be able to have a housing stock that people can access. And that&#8217;s one of our competitive strengths. When you look at Detroit and the city of Detroit and the state of Michigan, nationally, is that we&#8217;re an affordable place to live.
Stephen Henderson: Yeah, more affordable than other cities. At the same time, of course, people in the city will try to make rent and try to buy houses and tell you look, it&#8217;s still going to be pretty high. But what about the lending environment in the city right now and the role that needs to play in all of this?
Matt Elliot: Well, I was having this discussion with another banker earlier today. Doing home loans in particular in this city has always been difficult because of the appraisal issue. And that is a federal issue and we&#8217;re not getting around that. But a lot of lots of organizations, us included, have come up with some, I think, novel ways to help address that gap. So we&#8217;ve got a program we call the Affordable Loan Solution. And what it does is it allows a first-time homebuyer, and that&#8217;s the key thing, to get into a home responsibly and sustainably with no down payment.
So we provide a grant for the down payment, essentially. And what&#8217;s interesting about that is that, to your point, very often the mortgage payment is far lower than rent. So it actually saves the homeowner money, helps them build wealth, helps us with the housing stock in the city and we win a client. So, from our perspective, that&#8217;s a true win-win.
Stephen Henderson: Are we growing the lending environment enough in Detroit? I look at the numbers every year. They&#8217;re moving but I feel like the floodgates haven&#8217;t opened yet. And we have to find a way to make it possible for most people to buy a house.
Matt Elliot: There&#8217;s certainly progress to be made. If you ever go to the mayor&#8217;s conference room, he&#8217;s got a real-time dashboard and that includes the number of mortgages made in the city. So he&#8217;ll always want that to be higher, and frankly, so will we. But we&#8217;ve got to find a way to keep grinding these forward.
I think if we keep focused on the solution and keep looking for opportunities, that will happen. But all these things, those four pillars that I just mentioned earlier, are self-reinforcing. So keeping out those consistently over a long period of time, I think will get us where we need to go.
Stephen Henderson: Are you optimistic? Are you bullish on the city of Detroit? Not just downtown, but the neighborhoods, which the lending environment there is, of course, really different from downtown, both in a residential and commercial sense.
Matt Elliot: I think you can look at any situation and see what the issue is or maybe what the problem might be, but also what the opportunity is. And I&#8217;m still, and I think a lot of people who are here today are still, squarely in the opportunity camp. There is a lot of opportunity for us here.
One of the things that was a data point I found the other day, which was interesting, is the Department of Energy came out and said the three states in the country best positioned to drive battery manufacturing&#8230; Michigan is one of the three. We know we need to win in that regard but that&#8217;s going to create jobs, that&#8217;s going to create opportunities, and lots of suppliers around that. So these are just other examples of what Richard Florida said, which is the world is tilting in Detroit&#8217;s favor. And when was the last time, we said that? It&#8217;s been a while.
Stephen Henderson: So let&#8217;s look forward a bit to May, to Mackinaw Island, where you&#8217;re going to be the chair of the Policy Conference. What do we have to look forward to?
Matt Elliot: Well, the first thing that we&#8217;re going to do is we&#8217;re going to talk about what we call the power of &#8220;and.&#8221; That&#8217;s what the theme of the conference is. So often, Stephen, you know this, people will come at an issue or come at a problem with a set of either-or choices.
Stephen Henderson: And they fight about it.
Matt Elliot: And what you end up doing is having a discussion around being right, not trying to get it right. And that&#8217;s what we want to shift the conversation to do. How do we put some things into maybe some tension, that we realize that if we really work through them together, we get to the best &#8220;and.&#8221;
So things like sustainability and economic growth, making investments for the future, but still being fiscally responsible, using equity, diversity, and inclusion as a growth strategy. So some of these things that we&#8217;re going to talk about, I&#8217;m really excited for. There&#8217;s a committee of folks and advisors around the chair and the CEO of the chamber to advise it. And when we start talking about this theme, we got a lot of enthusiastic responses. And so I&#8217;m looking forward to the conference. The agenda is really shaping up nicely and it&#8217;s going to be fun.
Stephen Henderson: Are you looking forward to the Grand Prix here in Detroit? Yeah, that&#8217;s all I can think about when I think about Mackinaw. We&#8217;re skipping the whole conference. We&#8217;re going to have this race downtown and I&#8217;m old enough to remember that we used to.  I was a little kid last time. But things like that. That&#8217;s a great &#8220;and.&#8221; We&#8217;re going to have racing, and safety, and be environmentally conscious. Get it off Belle Isle to downtown.
Matt Elliot: Yeah. There are lots of &#8220;ands&#8221; in the world, and I think sometimes, the world doesn&#8217;t let you find them or doesn&#8217;t want you to find them. But in real life, that&#8217;s where growth is. That&#8217;s where solutions lie. And I&#8217;m looking forward to doing it too.
Stephen Henderson: Thanks for coming.
Matt Elliot: Thanks for having me. For having me. Great to see you.
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Is it time for Michigan to &#8216;step on the gas&#8217; to become a Top 10 state?</h2>
In a landscape where many states showed recent, considerable economic growth, Michigan grew more slowly in its quest to become a Top 10 state. Business Leaders for Michigan’s annual benchmarking shows improvement in individual metrics but overall, Michigan has slipped from 29 to 31 nationally and we have been leapfrogged by states such as Ohio and Tennessee.
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The state&#8217;s workforce is shrinking, and young Michiganders continue to move out of state, which research shows is the difference-maker for businesses deciding where to grow and expand. What do we need to do to accelerate the pace? How do we reverse the migration trend?
Join <a href="https://businessleadersformichigan.com/about/staff/jeffdonofrio/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Business Leaders for Michigan CEO Jeff Donofrio</a> and <a href="https://www.gardner-white.com/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gardner White President Rachel Stewart</a> for a fireside chat hosted by the <a href="https://www.econclub.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Economic Club</a> about Michigan’s economic growth and reversing unwanted trends.
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How has the shift to remote and hybrid work impacted downtown Detroit&#8217;s vibrancy? Has the pandemic upended the notion that downtowns thrive on in-office workspaces and large company headquarters?
When workers were able to return to the workforce, Detroit saw less than 16% of its workforce return to offices downtown, Downtown Detroit Partnership CEO Eric Larson said. Starting off in 2023, Detroit&#8217;s downtown workforce now sits at about 30%-40%. Larson predicts the city&#8217;s workforce population might hit its ceiling at about 70% as the city&#8217;s workforce continues to return closer to pre-pandemic levels.
As Detroit continues its return to work efforts, and employers realize what their post-pandemic strategy may be, One Detroit contributor Nolan Finley, of the Detroit News, sits down with Eric Larson at the 2023 Detroit Policy Conference to have a conversation about the ongoing shift in the way we work and how that&#8217;s impacting downtown Detroit&#8217;s vibrancy.
They talk about what may happen to several now- or soon-to-be-vacant office buildings downtown as companies downtown their physical workspaces, and the opportunities that Detroit is realizing through additional investments in hotel and visitor accommodations. Plus, they discuss the challenges businesses have faced throughout the pandemic, including a lack of foot traffic that extends into the present day and the inability to find workers.
&#8220;We need more residential to attract— the millennial-aged resident has more than doubled downtown in the last decade,” Larson said about the number of young professionals wanting to live in downtown Detroit versus the number of residences available to them. 
In his 30 years of real estate experience, Larson has developed, financed, owned, and managed over $3 billion in Detroit real estate, including the Renaissance Center, Little Caesar’s Arena, and The A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education.
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Nolan Finley, The Detroit News: Well, we&#8217;re joined now by Eric Larson, CEO of the Downtown Detroit Partnership. Eric, thanks for joining us.
Eric Larson, Chief Executive Officer, Downtown Detroit Partnership: I would not want to be anywhere else, Nolan. Thank you.
Nolan Finley: So, Erik. You&#8217;ve watched downtown for a long time. You were part of its comeback for many years. Going into the pandemic, the prevailing notion was, if you wanted to attract young creative workers, you had to have an office downtown.
We saw all sorts of companies opening offices downtown to attract talent. That sort of upended by the pandemic. Now, if we want to attract those same workers. The key is flexibility. They want to be able to work from where they want to work when they want to work. How is that impacting the downtown workforce?
Eric Larson: Yeah, Nolan, that&#8217;s a great point. And thank you for covering, not only this conference but also this conversation. Because for the Downtown Detroit Partnership, we&#8217;ve been at this for a long time. And we went from some incredible momentum pre-pandemic to some real low points. I mean, we had less than 16% of the work population&#8230; For a while, we had none of the work population. But when people were able to return, we had less than 16% of the work population coming back into the office.
We&#8217;re now, on a good day, so Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, we&#8217;re at about 45% to 60% of what used to be the high watermark. The high watermark was 80,000 people in the core of the downtown on a daily basis, five days a week. So we&#8217;re probably at about, on average, 25,000 if you spread that throughout the week. So we&#8217;re at somewhere around 30% to 40% of what we were at.
We were talking about this before. My guess is we&#8217;ll probably even out someplace around 70% of that work population coming back. There&#8217;s a portion of the work population that has to be in the office. They just can&#8217;t do their job without being physical. But there&#8217;s a big portion that&#8217;s going to want that flexibility. And employers are trying to figure out how to provide that flexibility.
Nolan Finley: Are you seeing most employers going to a hybrid model? Some days at home and some days in the office. What&#8217;s sort of the optimum that you&#8217;re seeing? What are they settling on?
Eric Larson: Absolutely. I haven&#8217;t seen an employer yet that has mandated five days a week. Everybody is saying&#8230; Typically, it&#8217;s two days a week. There are often splitting their work population. Partly, that help relieve the pressure in the office, but also to try and spread the benefit of having people in downtown between two days. So some of them will be Tuesday, Thursday, some of them will be sort of Wednesday, Fridays. But for the most part, it&#8217;s concentrated in the center of that work week. And I think that what we&#8217;ll see, Nolan, is we&#8217;ll see most companies continue that flexibility.
We went from during the pandemic, and you reported a little bit about this, employers really had no leverage. There was no political, much less, sort of appropriate way to force people back in. As we get further away from the pandemic, as people get more comfortable with their health and everything else, we&#8217;ll see people get back to some level of normalcy, but it will never be the same.
Nolan Finley: Let&#8217;s talk about the impact on the real estate market. We built a lot of office space prior to the pandemic in anticipation of an ever-growing downtown workforce. What&#8217;s happening to that space now? Are businesses looking for smaller footprints?
Eric Larson: Well, like anything in any situation, in any part of our economy, there&#8217;s a flight to quality. So the office is no different. So when there is a downturn, whether it&#8217;s a downturn caused by a pandemic or a downturn because of the economy, typically tenants will move from B and C-class properties to A-class properties. So you&#8217;ll see some movement.
You just saw the announcement from the Detroit Regional Chamber. They&#8217;re moving from 1001 over to One Kennedy Square, not because necessarily it&#8217;s an A or B or a C, but because they are downsizing. And so you&#8217;ll see that. Deloitte moved out of the Renaissance Center into WeWork space that was not being utilized the way WeWork expected it to be utilized.
And they&#8217;ve made that a global platform solution around the country. So I think we&#8217;ll see offices scale back, but we won&#8217;t see the immediate effect of that because leases have terms. That will take place over the next 3 to 5 years. We&#8217;ll start to feel the effects of people being able to downsize and reconfigure their space. And then we&#8217;ll also work on things like this federal legislation that we&#8217;ve got going through with Debbie Stabenow that&#8217;s sponsored to take office buildings that are 25 years or older and provide some obsolete tax credits to help them get repurposed as residential or incubator spaces, or educational, but some other use.
Nolan Finley: So when you look at this excess office space we&#8217;re going to have, what do you see it becoming? Commercial space? Housing?
Eric Larson: Most of it— And we&#8217;ve seen this because we had a lot of old space that, that&#8217;s where the tax credits were, that already has been converted into residential. A lot of it will be residential. The residential demand, Nolan, outstrips our supply by a lot. I mean, we are virtually 100% leased in the downtown. Our population over the last decade in the downtown has grown by 40%. We need more residential to attract. The millennial-aged resident in downtown has more than doubled in the last decade.
Nolan Finley: They still find downtown an attractive place to live, even if they might not be going into an office.
Eric Larson: Yeah, absolutely. They love the restaurants. They love the outdoor lifestyle that&#8217;s provided by the Detroit riverfront and the amazing work that they&#8217;ve done, our seven parks, all of that is stuff that attracts people that want to live. Now, there&#8217;s a point at which those grow up, they get married, they have kids, and then we got to solve the other issues. But there is a huge demand for residential. Now, when I say huge, we&#8217;re delivering a thousand units, roughly a year. That&#8217;s a reasonable amount of units but we&#8217;re not going to saturate our demand any time soon at that pace.
Nolan Finley: What&#8217;s happened to the restaurants and businesses that depend on a vigorous downtown workforce?
Eric Larson: They were decimated. I mean, again, you&#8217;ve reported a little bit. We&#8217;ve talked about it. Small businesses in general, not just restaurants and bars, but small businesses in general. And I don&#8217;t think we truly know and I&#8217;m not sure that we&#8217;ll ever really know the real number of those businesses that have now failed because of the lack of business.
But a number of businesses closed. Some of those closed and then have reopened. But a lot of the restaurants are having a hard time getting their workforce back, no different than the hotels and the hospitality industry. And so while they&#8217;re back to pre-pandemic levels of revenue, they aren&#8217;t necessarily back to the same level of occupancy. Again, the flight to quality happened. So the really good restaurants are fully booked. It&#8217;s hard to get a restaurant reservation but there are a lot of them that are still struggling.
Nolan Finley: And I&#8217;ve noticed I mean you look out the window onto the street. Where before the pandemic, we&#8217;re starting to see crowds up and down the street, like a big city. Now, a lot of days, it feels like 1999 when you can walk from one end of Lafayette or Fort Street and hardly pass anybody else.
Eric Larson: I feel the same thing. I&#8217;m actually one of those that&#8217;s in the office every day of the week and so I feel it on the good days and on those days that it&#8217;s a bit more quiet.
Nolan Finley: It&#8217;s hard to find a place to eat lunch.
Eric Larson: It is. A lot of the restaurants have, again, partly because of the labor situation and partly because of the demand, have closed for lunch. But I think, Nolan, that&#8217;s where the opportunity lies, not to suggest that it isn&#8217;t a problem, but that is really where some of the opportunity lies. As we create a more 24/7 economy, as we increase our residential population, as we continue to work on some of these educational higher ed solutions through these centers of innovation, whether it&#8217;s the Michigan Central or The Center for Innovation with the University of Michigan. Those are things that are going to really be, I think, drivers for additional population in the downtown and our visitors.
The amount of interest by these large events. We&#8217;ve got the draft in 2024, we&#8217;ve got the final four in 2027, we&#8217;ve got the Grand Prix returning to the streets this year. All of those are generating a lot more activity and traffic now. They need to be throughout the year. They can&#8217;t be episodic. But that in itself&#8230; We have 37 million visitors a year in downtown.
Nolan Finley: And we just ran a piece in the Detroit News about the growth in the hotel market here. A lot of small to midsize hotels are popping up everywhere around town. In Cork Town where your businesses are located. Is Detroit still considered a hot spot for conventions or other gatherings of that sort?
Eric Larson: Yeah, you and I have been around long enough to remember when we had five citywides, five conventions where they would take all the hotels. That has now totally changed. The level of interest is there. But the interesting thing is, we saw it in some of the recent publications listing Detroit as one of the top 100 places or top ten places to visit. People want to come, they want to see the architecture, they want to check out the food scene because it&#8217;s a really unique food scene, and it&#8217;s very walkable and inviting.
And so, yeah, we have over 700 new hotel rooms that are being delivered this year. We have a bunch of hotels that have been announced. We have the new funding from the state that&#8217;s going to help with the convention hotels. So that&#8217;ll support larger blocks of rooms, which is necessary for the big events and big conventions. So yeah, I feel really bullish about that.
Nolan Finley: Well, Eric, thanks a lot. We appreciate you joining us on &#8220;One Detroit&#8221; and thanks for what you do for the city.
Eric Larson: Well, I appreciate you. And thank you, my friend. It&#8217;s always good to be with you. Thank you.
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Has Detroit’s slow return to work stalled its downtown vibrancy? Eric Larson weighs in

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Millennials are expected to make up nearly three-fourths of the global workforce in the next two years, and many are moving away from now-unaffordable and overpopulated cities like New York City and San Francisco to cities down South including Austin, Dallas, and Miami. As millennial workers consider where they want to plant their roots, and build a family and career, what can Michigan do to attract them to move here?  
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It could be Michigan’s affordability, especially housing affordability, and accessibility that motivates millennials to move to Southeast Michigan, <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Regional Chamber</a> Senior Director of Community Engagement and Learning Development <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/bios/devon-oreilly/">Devon O’Reilly</a> says. One Detroit Producer, and <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/future-of-work/">Future of Work</a> host, <a href="https://twitter.com/YeaitsmewillG">Will Glover</a> met with O’Reilly at the Chamber’s downtown Detroit offices to talk about strategies that could make Michigan more attractive to millennial workers.  
<h2>Full Transcript:</h2>
Will Glover, One Detroit, Host: Our focus, my focus is the future of work. And one of the things that people are concerned about is where the millennials are going because they have the talent that every municipality, every state, every city wants to bolster their economy. But reports are saying millennials, our cohort are moving down south. They&#8217;re going to Dallas, they&#8217;re going to Austin, they&#8217;re going to Florida. What do you think it takes to get them to come here? Why aren&#8217;t they flocking to Detroit or Southeast Michigan? And what is the solution in your eyes to change that?
Devon O&#8217;Reilly, Senior Director, Community Engagement and Leadership Development Detroit Regional Chamber: Sure. I mean, well we can&#8217;t change the weather so, you know, there&#8217;s that migration to southern warmer states and warmer climates. Nothing we can do about that, although I&#8217;d argue having four seasons is pretty cool. I mean, I enjoy having four great seasons in Michigan. So we have some things that we have to look at in terms of what are our strengths. There&#8217;s things we can&#8217;t change. There&#8217;s certain factors, whether it be environmental, whether it be major macro factors that we can&#8217;t really change anytime soon. So we have to look at what our strengths are.
There is still a good amount of affordability compared to some of the places. You mentioned, even if you look at like Austin, D.C.. Even in the coasts, Boston. It&#8217;s it&#8217;s really expensive. And especially at housing, which people are talking about the housing market and being able to afford and the dream of millennial is to own a home just like anyone in previous generations. And that&#8217;s still really a lot more attainable here in the southeast Michigan region. And so there is a level of kind of accessibility and affordability that I think is important to consider when staying in Michigan. I have friends in other parts of the country who just can&#8217;t afford a house.
And money goes a long way here, longer way here, I should say. So that&#8217;s a factor. But I think we also have to look at it strategically. And, you know, we are and when I say we, I&#8217;m talking about kind of the chamber, our partners. And actually what I&#8217;m encouraged by is some of the real intentionality about how can we address this problem. So, for instance, at our Machado summit in December, the governor announced a fund, funding for our Machado program for a high-tech talent strategy. And what that&#8217;s going to be doing is going to allow public and private sectors. So academic institutions, schools themselves, employers, major employers here and places like the chamber to kind of work together on benchmarking. Well, what are other cities doing that are attracting talent? Where are they going?
Because we have talent here. We know this. We have talent here. We have some of the best schools in the country, in the world here. They&#8217;re just leaving. And so it&#8217;s more about how are we keeping people here who already know about Michigan and maybe just change their perception a little bit and show them a pathway. And so, what we&#8217;re going to start talking about is this kind of career talent supply chain, instead of a pipeline. A talent supply chain where there&#8217;s, on ramps off ramps. But there&#8217;s a strategic way where if you&#8217;re in school, if you&#8217;re at Michigan Tech or you&#8217;re in Lawrence Tech or you&#8217;re at U of M, you have a clear path to a really great career in a field that you want because, again, jobs are here.
And so a lot of it, unfortunately, is just perception and changing that perception and showing people, young people in high school and in college, that there is a clear path to an incredible job that will pay you well and give you that life that you want. And then you can vacation in Florida and Southern California and have another house there.
Will Glover: Right, right. So, we can set you up here to have the life that you want and explore the world.
Devon O&#8217;Reilly: Exactly.
Will Glover: Right. Could you give&#8230; Give us your pitch for coming to the city of Detroit. For starting your business here, growing your business here, starting your family here, growing your family here. Living, working, playing. What is your pitch for anybody who might not quite get it yet?
Devon O&#8217;Reilly: I can tell you because I live it every day. And you know this you know, we talked about that small-town feel. Well, that&#8217;s helpful in that regard because if you want to make something of yourself here, whether it be starting your own business, whether it be part of a larger business that you feel is doing something really great, worthwhile. You can do it here easier and more accessible because everyone talks to each other. You can be in Detroit for a week and find all the right people. You find Devon, I introduce you to Will, Will introduces you to Jeanette Pearson or whoever it is, whoever you want to talk to. That&#8217;s what kind of my personal pitch to people.
When I talk to small businesses and I talk to entrepreneurs and I have from all over the world, you know, I tell them in a nutshell, who do you need to talk to? We can connect you. I can connect you because that&#8217;s what Detroit does.We all know each other and we all have these relationships. So you can do it here. You can build it here, whatever that is to you. You can build it here.
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Millennials make up a majority of the global workforce. Can Michigan attract them to move here?

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In the past decade, the pulse of downtown Detroit has gone up and down like a rollercoaster. From a steep drop into bankruptcy a decade ago to swift twists and turns to return the city’s vibrancy, all for those efforts to be met with another huge drop— the COVID-19 pandemic. As Detroiters head into year three of the city’s post-pandemic recovery efforts, what plans are ahead? And what do the experts think?  
One of the <a href="https://creativeclass.com/richard_florida/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nation’s leading urbanists</a> Richard Florida, co-founder of the <a href="https://creativeclass.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Creative Class Group</a>, sat down with One Detroit contributor, and <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/category/american-black-journal/">“American Black Journal”</a> host, <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#stephen">Stephen Henderson</a> after his keynote speech at the <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/detroit-policy-conference/dpc-2023/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2023 Detroit Policy Conference</a> for a discussion about the future of downtown Detroit and how it compares to other urban cities.  
Florida gives an assessment of where Detroit stands in its post-pandemic recovery today, comparing the city to other urban areas, and shares his thoughts about the <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/future-of-work/what-do-workers-want-from-a-post-pandemic-workforce-strategic-staffing-solutions-weighs-in/">ongoing shift toward remote and hybrid work</a> models. Plus, he tells Henderson the two priorities downtown Detroit should be thinking about if it wants to recover successfully from the pandemic.  
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Stephen Henderson, Host of American Black Journal: Richard Florida, Welcome back to Detroit. I know this is one of your favorite places.
Richard Florida, Co-founder, Creative Class Group: Yeah, it&#8217;s kind of a second home for me since my wife&#8217;s family is basically from here.
Stephen Henderson: So let&#8217;s talk about Detroit post-pandemic. We are two years or almost three years since the bottoming out, I guess, of downtowns. Give me your assessment of Detroit. How are we doing and how are we doing compared to other cities?
Richard Florida: I mean, remote work has taken its toll on every downtown of any large metropolitan area in America. Overall, across the country, according to the best data we have about downtown, offices are about 50% filled. That ranges from Austin at the top, which is about two-thirds to the way back, at the very top. And then at the bottom, a place like San Francisco or Los Angeles is about a third, maybe 40% back. From what we know about Detroit, Detroit seems right about the average.
I think one thing that&#8217;s really interesting is, when you think about cities, it&#8217;s really the offices there aren&#8217;t back. People are going to movies, they&#8217;re going to restaurants, they&#8217;re going to hockey and basketball, and then football, and baseball games in the spring. Almost everything city is back except for the office. I think, in Detroit, the last time I looked, it was 85% back. In some Midwestern cities like Columbus, it&#8217;s actually over. It&#8217;s over 100% back. More people are back.
I think the real question is that&#8230; I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re ever going to see the office come back the way it was. I think this has been an ongoing shift. And if you look at this trend of remote work, it did triple. But it had been going up before the pandemic. It hit about five or six percent of people working remotely. Now it&#8217;s about 18 percent, best figures we have. I mean, that still means 82% of the people go to the office sometime. But I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s going to be Monday through Friday. I think it&#8217;s going to be a struggle.
Stephen Henderson: And it&#8217;s so different for us because we spent the ten years before the pandemic repairing a downtown that has lost all of its office energy. We had all of these empty buildings. People were not down there a lot. We really did double down on the idea that it should be a traditional downtown again.  I think it&#8217;s a little more distressing for us that that investment and all that time, now, maybe needs to be retooled to do something different.
Richard Florida: I&#8217;ve been in and around downtown Detroit since the late seventies. I&#8217;m a kid from Newark, New Jersey. A downtown that was more troubled than Detroit at its worst moment. Look, I think the hard slog was what you did. The combination of deindustrialization, factory closures, loss of the economic function, and then you take suburbanization or white flight, whichever one you want to call it. De-industrialization and de-population devastated. There were a bunch of parking lots, a couple of buildings, and a lot of abandoned structures.
If you think about what happened here over the past decade, you&#8217;ve done a lot. I don&#8217;t think this is quite as bad. And really, I&#8217;ve now been studying the history of business, Central Business Districts. It&#8217;s not like they emerged in 1920 and stayed static. They have been invented- There&#8217;s a book. Robert Fogelson wrote this book around the year 2000 called &#8220;Downtown: Its Rise and Fall.&#8221; That was the sub-title. The rise and fall. And then we brought them back in the 2000s.
The downtown office work area is not going to be the same. But I think the downtown is an entertainment center, recreational center, and social center. I like to call it, not a central business district, but a central connectivity district. And then converting some into residences. I think that the more people who live downtown&#8230; One thing we found in the pandemic, neighborhoods in urban areas where people lived did better than ones where people just worked. So I think our next move is going to have to be creating more live. And the other one is, is making our downtowns more family-friendly, which is going to be another big challenge.
Stephen Henderson: Yes. And that was what I was going to ask. If we want to repopulate downtowns with residents, the way that we&#8217;re building right now doesn&#8217;t really do it. We&#8217;re building a lot of 500-square-foot studios, those kinds of things. If you have children, you want a two-bedroom, or maybe you want a three-bedroom. We have almost no three-bedroom apartments being built in downtown Detroit.
Richard Florida: And the same as in Philadelphia or Cleveland or even&#8230; Well, not so much Chicago and certainly not New York. But I think that in America, the downtown has been seen as either a place for the young, you know what I&#8217;m saying, kind of a hipster person who wants an urban experience, wants to go out, wants to meet other people, have friends, go on dates, or the empty nester whose kids have gone off and want to get rid of the big house and have a condo or an apartment.
Our downtowns, because of the legacy of not investing enough in our urban schools and because of the closure of many private and parochial schools that were in downtowns, they have a schooling deficit. So I think on the one hand, it&#8217;s bigger apartments, multifamily apartments that are family-friendly, that are not like, your kids can&#8217;t make noise and there&#8217;s no recreational room. But also reinvesting in schools.
I do think that&#8217;s one of the decent things New York City has done. New York City has done a pretty good job, not a perfect job of kind of upgrading schools and at least giving families urban schooling options. I think over time, if you ask me, as we repopulate our downtowns and build more residences, they&#8217;re not going to be fully repopulated or they&#8217;re not going to be balanced unless we can start to get more families back to the urban center.
Stephen Henderson: Well, here in metro Detroit, that bumps up against the other real issue we have which is inclusion and diversity. Making sure that, everybody feels like there&#8217;s an opportunity to participate in downtown. With housing, that seems doubly important.
Richard Florida: Yeah. And I mean urban centers bear more costs. One of the things that Detroit has been very good about is trying, not always succeeding, putting a focus on equity and inclusion. Whenever I&#8217;ve worked here or advised here, I&#8217;d say put equity and inclusion, inclusive development, and inclusive prosperity. The statistics are pretty grim, right?
Detroit city residents have half the median incomes of their suburban counterparts. I think it&#8217;s 27% live in a middle-class household versus 40% in the suburbs. And the really daunting one I saw in this Detroit Future City report, 5% of people in the city live in a middle-class neighborhood compared to, even if you have less income, 60% of the people in the suburbs live in a middle-class neighborhood with the kind of institutions. So the city has more cost, it has more poverty, more social services, has to invest more in schools. But I think this is the pivot we have to make as a society. And if we&#8217;re going to rebuild our cities, it&#8217;s either that or we&#8217;re not going to have cities that function.
So the next step in our cities is going to be they have to be more than just places for young people and empty nesters. More for just workforce commuters. They&#8217;re going to have to be rebuilt as more inclusive communities, with single people, with empty nesters, with workers and commuters, but with families.
Stephen Henderson: If you had to think of two things that maybe we&#8217;re not thinking of that we probably have to do in Detroit or in any downtown to keep getting over the pandemic and getting back to where we are, what would they be?
Richard Florida: I think just rethinking. The idea of a central business district, we have to get away from it. We know this. And if you look at where downtown is growing, it&#8217;s not just the central business district, it&#8217;s the Cass Corridor, it&#8217;s Corktown, it&#8217;s over near Eastern Market. All these areas. City after city, the downtown has kind of morphed out of business.
The hottest parts of New York, the hottest parts of Chicago are not the center core. So think about, not a central business district, but a central entertainment district, a central innovation district, a central what I call connectivity district, where people come to connect. The other one, I&#8217;d say&#8230; My mentor was a woman named Jane Jacobs. She wrote her first essay. She wrote many books later. Her first essay she wrote in 1951. Roughly, then. Over half a century ago. The title of that essay was not Downtown is for Offices. Downtown is for business. The title was Downtown is for People. I think that&#8217;s the key. Downtown is for people. We&#8217;ve been trying that for a half century. Now&#8217;s the time I think, we have to make it a reality.
Stephen Henderson: Richard Florida, it&#8217;s always great to have you here in Detroit and share your ideas with us. Thanks for being here.
Richard Florida: Thanks for having me.
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Richard Florida shares the two priorities downtown Detroit needs for its post-pandemic recovery

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For nearly three years, many employees have been working remotely because of the pandemic. Now, whether employers are choosing to stay fully remote, implement a hybrid model or make a full return to the office, several businesses are starting to make decisions about their post-pandemic workplace environments and requirements. But what do the employees want?  
Strategic Staffing Solutions <a href="https://www.strategicstaff.com/meet-cindy-pasky-founder-president-and-ceo/#:~:text=Cindy%20Pasky%20founded%20Strategic%20Staffing,core%20part%20of%20the%20company's" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President and CEO Cindy Pasky</a> sits down with One Detroit <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#nolan">contributor Nolan Finley</a> of <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/staff/2646740001/nolan-finley/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Detroit News</a> at the <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/detroit-policy-conference/dpc-2023/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2023 Detroit Policy Conference</a> to learn more about the disruption COVID-19 caused to Detroit’s workforce, as well as how employees and employers are navigating the post-pandemic landscape.   
They talk about the increased number of people taking on gig economy and/or entrepreneurial ventures, employees’ shift in perspective, the organization’s efforts to find jobs for veterans and <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/one-detroit/returning-citizens-disproportionately-locked-out-of-employment-michigans-workforce/">returning citizens</a>, and the importance of those efforts to the organization. Plus, she gives her predictions for the future of Detroit’s job market and workforce development. 
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Nolan Finley, The Detroit News: So we&#8217;re joined now by Cynthia Pasky, the chairman of Strategic Staffing Solutions, a longtime Detroit company, a longtime Detroit supporter. Cindy, thank you for joining us.
Cindy Pasky, CEO, Strategic Staffing Solutions: Oh, thank you, Nolan. It&#8217;s a pleasure to be here.
Nolan Finley: Cindy, your company provides workers for a lot of different kinds of companies. Tech business, other businesses, insurance companies. We went through this horrible workforce disruption in the pandemic. A lot of people dropped out. It&#8217;s hard to find workers. Has the ship righted? Are people coming back to work, are people looking for jobs again, and are employers looking for employees?
Cindy Pasky: Well, employers never stopped looking. In certain industries, they never stopped looking. So finance, energy, health care. They always had to look. Some employers obviously stop retail, transportation, things like that. So employers are continuing to look. They have a greater comfort level now as to getting their work done. The type of employees that are willing to come back, your high-tech workers, your finance people, your health care people. They&#8217;re looking for jobs. They want to engage, but they were with industries that kept working along through the pandemic.
I think part of what I don&#8217;t see a lot of conversation around is a lot of individuals found a way to make a living through the gray economy. And perhaps it&#8217;s not as lucrative as when they had a position, but it has the flexibility of their own schedule, their own roles, whether it&#8217;s being a person driving an Uber, delivering, or whether it&#8217;s cutting hair in their basement. So we still see a challenge with individuals that have said, I&#8217;m not sure I actually want to step back and take this position full time at the salon or take this position at the restaurant. I can make an income this way.
Nolan Finley: Flexibility is sort of the keyword in employment, right? The sort of business you run, where you take workers and put them with companies for a short period of time or maybe a long period of time. But not, I&#8217;m signing up for a lifetime job.
Cindy Pasky: Exactly.
Nolan Finley: I&#8217;m going to work here for a while, then maybe over here. Does that seem to be where workers are going today? They want that variety or flexibility.
Cindy Pasky: They want the variety. They want the flexibility. And I think one of the things that happened during the pandemic is they lost some of the fear of having that flexibility and having that variety. And they recognize that if they have a skill, they&#8217;re a valuable commodity and they don&#8217;t have to stay somewhere for ten years or 15 years.
Someone&#8217;s going to see value in what they bring and provide them another opportunity. So while it was a very fearful situation for so many reasons, one of the things that happened is people went, my talent has value. I shouldn&#8217;t be afraid to ask for what&#8217;s important to me and I shouldn&#8217;t assume I won&#8217;t find that next opportunity.
Nolan Finley: For a long time, people coming into these temporary positions at places like Ford or Blue Cross were sort of looked at as second-tier workers. Not full partners, if you will. Has that changed?
Cindy Pasky In some industries, specifically, it has changed. I think your energy industry. We have a very large energy customer that&#8217;s headquartered between Houston and California. And they refer to their talent as where the location is and who the partner is. Is it the customer&#8217;s talent in Houston, the customer&#8217;s talent in the Philippines, or the customer&#8217;s talent in Argentina? Is it ASTRI&#8217;s talent in Houston or ASTRI&#8217;s talent in Lithuania? So they don&#8217;t distinguish at all whether it&#8217;s their team member or their partner&#8217;s team member. All they say is who has the talent and what country are we looking for this talent to get our work done?
Nolan Finley: Obviously, demand is booming. Your company has grown tremendously over the years. You&#8217;re in how many countries? How many cities?
Cindy Pasky: We&#8217;re in 16 countries now. We opened in the Philippines during the pandemic. We have consultants working in Argentina, which we accomplished during the pandemic. And we just opened in Poland. And we have consultants in 48 states and brick-and-mortar in 23.
Nolan Finley: So how often do you put employees with a company, and they end up staying long-term at that company, taking jobs with that employer?
Cindy Pasky: In our world, the way that works is you work that out with the customer before the work begins because it&#8217;s a different interviewing process, right? You wouldn&#8217;t want to interview someone who has the mindset that they don&#8217;t want to hire in, and then you disappoint the customer when the customer offers them a job.
So you have to decide upfront and then you look for talent that says, yes, I&#8217;d like to have the opportunity to then convert. Each case is different, but it has to be pre-defined for us. That&#8217;s the ultimate compliment, right? If we did such a good job, the customer wants to hire the talent, then it means we really know what they need.
Nolan Finley: So you see why this is a good deal for employers. They can fill a need without long-term obligations. Why is it a good deal for the people taking the job?
Cindy Pasky: It&#8217;s a good deal because they have an opportunity to understand the environment, they&#8217;re going to be a part of, decide that they can bring value, understand the career paths that are there versus the career path and consulting, and know that they&#8217;ve earned an opportunity for that position. But they don&#8217;t have&#8230; On day one of the new job, they already have their orientation, they know people, they can bring value, and they also understand where they could guide themselves through to go forward.
Nolan Finley: What&#8217;s the average amount of time someone stays with your company taking jobs in different ways?
Cindy Pasky: We track it two ways. We track it for our core overhead team, which is our back office, payroll, and finance. That average tenure is 13 years. The average tenure with our consultants is between five and six. It&#8217;s pretty high.
Nolan Finley: You&#8217;ve had to be very innovative in staffing and finding people to take these jobs. You&#8217;ve been sort of a pioneer both in hiring veterans and in hiring former prison inmates, returning citizens. Why is that important to you and how has it worked out?
Cindy Pasky: It&#8217;s important because we believe&#8230; One of our pillars is to provide people an opportunity to change their station in life. And we live that every single day. We believe that when you look at a veteran, they have sacrificed part of their life to ensure that we have the freedoms that we believe in, that we need, and that we desire. They should have barriers removed to offset the fact that they weren&#8217;t in the workforce with someone their age for X number of years. They start out of the gate four years behind.
Nolan Finley: And returning citizens?
Cindy Pasky: And returning citizens. When someone&#8217;s gone through and said, I recognize that I&#8217;ve made a mistake, I have done what I need to do to rectify that, I have gathered a skill, and I want to be part of my family and I want to be part of the community. It would be so unfortunate if somebody didn&#8217;t recognize that they should be given that opportunity.
Nolan Finley: Do you run into hesitancy with employers when you try to place returning citizens?
Cindy Pasky: We used to but we have to&#8230; Remember we have a different customer base, so it&#8217;s focused on certain industries, but we&#8217;ve also been very upfront about it. And we create ways for them to do that. So we&#8217;ll hire them as our employees. We can have them work in one of our development centers. We can take all of the risk, which we will gladly do. And then six months to a year down the road, the customer&#8217;s like, you were right, now I want to hire this person. So it&#8217;s been a success. But we remove barriers not just for the person but for the customer.
Nolan Finley: As we said at the beginning, longtime Detroit chairman. You&#8217;re looking at Detroit post-pandemic. What do you see over the next five years?
Cindy Pasky: Oh, that&#8217;s a really good question. I wish I could see Detroit over the next five years. You know, where I see&#8230; We still don&#8217;t have enough jobs. We don&#8217;t have enough layers of jobs to have Detroiters go to work. We don&#8217;t have enough jobs, still, coming into our state and into our city.
I co-chair the mayor&#8217;s Workforce Board. I chair the governor&#8217;s Workforce Board. So I don&#8217;t say that this is an issue and not try and be part of the solution. But we don&#8217;t. We don&#8217;t have the right combination of jobs. I think everybody should have an opportunity to work. We continue to make success with that, and I believe Detroit will continue to prosper.
Nolan Finley: Cindy Pasky, chairman of Strategic Staffing Solutions, thanks for being with us today.
Cindy Pasky: Thank you, Nolan.
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What do workers want from a post-pandemic workforce? Strategic Staffing Solutions weighs in

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As Michigan ushers in a Democratic-controlled state government for the first time in 40 years, what could that mean for the state’s ongoing investments in Detroit? And what could Detroit’s resurgence mean for the rest of the region and state? 
Michigan Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II sat down with One Detroit contributor, and “American Black Journal” host, <a href="https://twitter.com/SHDetroit">Stephen Henderson</a> on the Motor City Casino Hotel’s Sound Board stage at the <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/detroit-policy-conference/dpc-2023/">2023 Detroit Policy Conference</a>, hosted by the <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/">Detroit Regional Chamber</a>, for a conversation about what’s happening in downtown Detroit and the administration’s economic plans for investing in the city’s future.  
They talk about <a href="https://twitter.com/LtGovGilchrist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lt. Gov. Gilchrist II’s</a> childhood growing up just east of downtown Detroit, in the Elmwood Park area, the evolution of Detroit over the years and the importance of having a vibrant downtown, and about the state’s partnerships that are investing in transportation infrastructure, a stronger technology ecosystem, and spaces for entrepreneurs to grow their businesses. 
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Michigan Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II on the administration’s investment in downtown Detroit

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Baby boomers are facing a big decision: should they stay in the workforce, and can they afford to leave? Can Michigan afford to lose them? According to <a href="https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/civilian-labor-force-participation-rate.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics</a>, the percentage of civilian workers aged 65-74 participating in the U.S. labor force is expected to take a sharp rise in the next decade, meaning more baby boomers are expected to stave off retirement and stay in their positions longer.
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In Michigan, the numbers bear a striking resemblance to what&#8217;s being seen and projected in the next decade nationwide. What impact could increased and elongated participation in the U.S. workforce from baby boomers have on Michigan&#8217;s economy? And how about for the generations of workers coming after them, expected to fill their shoes?
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One Detroit producer and Future of Work host <a href="https://twitter.com/YeaitsmewillG" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Will Glover</a> talks with Detroit Free Press Personal Finance Columnist Susan Tompor about the challenges baby boomers face in today&#8217;s workforce and the impact the generation has on Michigan&#8217;s economy.
They discuss the challenges baby boomers face with federal social safety nets, whether baby boomers in Michigan still need to rely on earned income to support themselves, the knowledge gaps baby boomers may leave behind when they decide to retire, and how younger generations may be affected by baby boomers&#8217; extended stay at work.
This town hall continues One Detroit&#8217;s <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/future-of-work/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cumulative, ongoing conversation</a> involving the future of work and workforce development in Michigan.
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<a href="https://www.freep.com/staff/2646314001/susan-tompor/"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-28673" src="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Susan-Tompor-Headshot.webp" alt="Susan Tompor" width="250" height="250" srcset="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Susan-Tompor-Headshot.webp 1413w, https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Susan-Tompor-Headshot-300x300.webp 300w, https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Susan-Tompor-Headshot-1024x1024.webp 1024w, https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Susan-Tompor-Headshot-150x150.webp 150w, https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Susan-Tompor-Headshot-768x768.webp 768w" sizes="(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px" /></a>As the personal finance columnist for the Detroit Free Press, Susan Tompor focuses on consumer watchdog issues and economic upheaval, including how the pandemic has hit pocketbooks.
Awards include Best General Column 2020 from the Detroit Society of Professional Journalists and a Gerald Loeb Award 2015 for personal finance coverage, well as a 2008 Gerald Loeb honorable mention as part of the Free Press team covering autos.
Tompor has also written extensively on everything from the massive financial meltdown in the Great Recession to Detroit&#8217;s historic bankruptcy filing, which involved cutting the pensions of city workers. She loves tips on taxes, scams, and financial chaos. She&#8217;s happy to be married, a mom and a corgi&#8217;s companion.
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Glover studied film at Eastern Michigan University and received his Associate Degree in Digital Video Production &amp; Documentary Film from Washtenaw Community College. Whether it’s underwriting voice-overs or producing stories for One Detroit, you’ll hear his voice throughout Detroit Public TV programming. Glover’s focus is on his craft: finding the stories and voices that capture the truth.
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The High Cost of Baby Boomers | Future of Work Town Hall

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Ten years ago, in 2013, Detroit was facing arguably one of its hardest situations yet: bankruptcy. In the last decade, however, the city&#8217;s downtown has rebounded and revitalized itself, and in the grand scheme of things, for some city officials and key stakeholders, Detroit&#8217;s resurgence is just getting started. 
Detroiters will have a <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/detroit-policy-conference/dpc-2023/">chance to learn more</a> about upcoming efforts to build a more equitable and prosperous future for downtown Detroit at the <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/">Detroit Regional Chamber&#8217;s</a> 2023 Detroit Policy Conference. The conference will be hosted Jan. 10 at Motor City Casino Hotel, featuring notable speakers like Detroit Regional Chamber President &amp; CEO <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/bios/sandy-k-baruah/">Sandy K. Baruah</a>, Bedrock LLC CEO <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/bios/kofi-bonner/">Kofi Bonner</a>, City of Detroit Director of Planning and Development <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/bios/antoine-bryant/">Antoine Bryant</a>, Detroit Mayor <a href="https://detroitmi.gov/government/mayors-office">Mike Duggan</a>, <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/whitmer/ltgov">Michigan Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II</a>, &#8220;American Black Journal&#8221; host <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/american-black-journal/contributors/">Stephen Henderson</a> and several others. 
Covering the conference through the lens of our Future of Work initiative, One Detroit contributors Nolan Finley, <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/staff/2646740001/nolan-finley/">of the Detroit News</a>, and Henderson sit down with Baruah about this year&#8217;s conference theme and the <a href="https://www.detroitchamber.com/detroit-policy-conference/dpc-2023/agenda/">conversations policymakers will have there</a>. 
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2023 Detroit Policy Conference focuses on the City’s resurgence and the future for downtown

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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Watch One Detroit&#8217;s Future of Work Year in Review on-demand now</h2>
After more than two years of navigating the COVID-19 pandemic and major economic shifts, Michigan&#8217;s workforce landscape has changed drastically. Businesses of all sizes, and their employees, were impacted. Some small businesses shuttered, while others thrived, and the philosophy behind what work is, and what it should be, came into question.
In April 2022, <a href="https://www.dptv.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Public TV&#8217;s</a> One Detroit team began its work to examine the status of Michigan&#8217;s workforce and economy, and whether our state is prepared for the future of work. During our monthly virtual <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/future-of-work/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Future of Work Town Halls</a> posed the question: Coming out of the pandemic, what does the future of work in Michigan look like?
Featuring seasoned experts and professionals currently navigating major economic workforce questions, One Detroit&#8217;s Future of Work coverage has explored what the future holds in store for Michigan’s workforce and whether Michigan has the infrastructure, amenities and investments to attract and retain a workforce that can propel the state forward.
We&#8217;ve learned where Michigan&#8217;s workforce ranks against other states, looked at the challenges Michigan educators are facing, surveyed Michigan&#8217;s placemaking efforts and needs, investigated the state&#8217;s latest childcare legislation, and talked to Michigan companies that are investing in the next generation of businesses, inventors and entrepreneurs.
As 2022 comes to its end, One Detroit Producer and Future of Work Town Hall host Will Glover takes stock of Michigan&#8217;s workforce and economy, and the progress the state has made this year.
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Building Michigan&#8217;s Future Workforce</h3>
Explore how Michigan&#8217;s workforce compares to other states and the investments needed to compete in the future of work.
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Steering the Future: Moving the Motor City&#8217;s Auto Industry Forward</h3>
How will Michigan&#8217;s auto industry stay competitive in the ever-changing automotive environment of the 21st century? 
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<h3 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="text-align: center;">Creating Communities: The Path to Placemaking</h3>
Michigan has invested in placemaking to attract and retain a strong workforce, but have the state&#8217;s efforts paid off?
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Michigan Redesigned</h3>
Exploring Michigan&#8217;s efforts to develop its creative design industry and become a creative hub for designers.
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<h3 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="text-align: center;">School&#8217;s Out for Teachers: Examining the State of Teaching in Michigan </h3>
Examining Michigan&#8217;s teacher shortage and the state&#8217;s efforts to make education a more sought-after profession.
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<h3 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="text-align: center;">Women in the Workforce</h3>
Investigating how Michigan&#8217;s latest childcare legislation will help working parents re-enter the workforce.
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<h3 class="style-scope ytd-watch-metadata" style="text-align: center;">The JOBS Project with Detroit Action</h3>
Michigan&#8217;s returning citizens disproportionately face employment barriers. The JOBS Project helps them find jobs.
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The rapidly changing workforce landscape has created new, unique challenges for employees and employers. One Detroit&#8217;s Future of Work series examines different aspects of the ever-changing working world.
Check out the latest future of work stories, town halls and interviews to learn more about where Michigan&#8217;s workforce could be heading in the future.
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A Year in Review: The Future of Work in Michigan | Future of Work Town Hall

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In this time of global upheaval, the greatest challenge business leaders face is access to human capital. As a global leader on the future of employment, culture and leadership, Johnny C. Taylor, Jr is a sought-after voice on all matters affecting work, workers, and the workplace.
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Taylor discusses the complexities of the modern workplace amid a pandemic, fluctuating unemployment, economic uncertainty and a heightened urgency around inclusion and diversity.
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The Great Reset: The Future of Work with SHRM’s Johnny Taylor, Jr.

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<h2 style="text-align: center;">One Detroit examines employment barriers for returning citizens and other low-income residents</h2>
Life after prison can be difficult for returning citizens, especially as they attempt to return to the workforce. Returning citizens who were formerly incarcerated face disparate chances to land a job. A <a href="https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/outofwork.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study from the Prison Policy Initiative</a> found that across four demographic groups — Black men, Black women, white men and white women — all groups had higher unemployment rates for formerly incarcerated citizens than the United States general population. 
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In Southeast Michigan, the disparities are no different for the estimated 5,000 citizens, <a href="https://detroitaction.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Detroit Action</a>, who return to life outside of prison each year. As a member-led grassroots organization, Detroit Action is working to make employment accessible for returning citizens and low-income residents through its new JOBS (Job Opportunities for a Better Society) Project.
The project &#8220;would act as a hiring hall for locals by systematically recruiting and bringing together individuals who face ongoing discrimination in the job market because of a record of past offenses and others within our community who struggle at finding employment,&#8221; the project&#8217;s website says.
One Detroit producer and Future of Work host <a href="https://twitter.com/YeaitsmewillG" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Will Glover</a> talks with Detroit Action <a href="https://twitter.com/bsneezy313" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Executive Director Branden Synder</a> to learn more about the organization&#8217;s JOBS Project and how they&#8217;re paving the way for returning citizens to participate in Detroit&#8217;s resurgence.  
They talk about the barriers to employment for returning citizens in Southeast Michigan, the training Detroit Action provides to returning citizens to help them scale up their employable skills, and how the organization works with employers across metro Detroit to find formerly incarcerated people jobs. 
This town hall continues One Detroit&#8217;s <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/future-of-work/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cumulative, ongoing conversation</a> involving the future of work and workforce development in Michigan.
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<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-27767" src="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Branden-Snyder-Detroit-Action-e1668024556704.jpeg" alt="Detroit Action Executive Director Branden Snyder" width="300" height="287" srcset="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Branden-Snyder-Detroit-Action-e1668024556704.jpeg 853w, https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Branden-Snyder-Detroit-Action-e1668024556704-300x287.jpeg 300w, https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Branden-Snyder-Detroit-Action-e1668024556704-768x735.jpeg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />Born and raised on Detroit’s East Side to a working-class union family, Branden has been involved in faith, electoral and community organizing projects throughout the United States for over 10 years. Previously, Branden was the Deputy Organizing Director in charge of Youth Voting for the Hillary For Michigan 2016 presidential campaign, the Deputy Campaign Manager for the groundbreaking Gilchrist for Detroit City Clerk campaign, as well as the Statewide Director of Organizing for Michigan United.
Branden’s commitment to democracy and racial justice is fueled, in great part, by his experiences as a Detroiter and that of other Detroiters who have endured poverty and the criminal justice system. He believes in the power of bringing our communities together and challenging leaders to go from victims to victors by engaging the systems and policies that impact our lives.
Branden is a graduate of the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor with a B.A. in Political Science and Afro-American studies and a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the Gerald R. Ford School for Public Policy. Branden also is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi, Fraternity Incorporated and is a die-hard Detroit sports fan (GO BLUE!) filled with a love for dogs, random trivia from “The Simpsons”, Hip-Hop and the NBA.
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<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-24391" src="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/DSCF1408-scaled-e1654029910611.jpg" sizes="(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px" srcset="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/DSCF1408-scaled-e1654029910611.jpg 160w, https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/DSCF1408-scaled-e1654029910611.jpg 511w, https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/DSCF1408-scaled-e1654029910611.jpg 768w, https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/DSCF1408-scaled-e1654029910611.jpg 1080w, https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/DSCF1408-scaled-e1654029910611.jpg 640w, https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/DSCF1408-scaled-e1654029910611.jpg 1280w" alt="Will Glover Headshot 3" width="300" height="338" />For Detroit Public TV’s Future of Work initiative, One Detroit news and current events producer Will Glover leads conversations with business, economic, education, human resources, and policy experts to dive deep into Michigan’s workplace, workforce and the work itself to understand how we could create, retain and attract the talent needed to innovate and make Michigan a competitive top ten state across multiple industries.
Glover studied film at Eastern Michigan University and received his Associate Degree in Digital Video Production &amp; Documentary Film from Washtenaw Community College. Whether it’s underwriting voice-overs or producing stories for One Detroit, you’ll hear his voice throughout Detroit Public TV programming. Glover’s focus is on his craft: finding the stories and voices that capture the truth.
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The JOBS Project with Detroit Action | Future of Work Town Hall

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What will it take to create a bright future for Michigan’s workforce and economy? According to experts, the state’s success lies in investments and improvements in the engineering and <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/business-entrepreneurship/michigan-redesigned-developing-design-jobs-investments-in-the-states-design-industry/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">design industries</a>. To better understand the investments that are needed, One Detroit’s Future of Work initiative takes a closer look at the <a href="https://www.centrepolisaccelerator.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Centrepolis Accelerator</a> at <a href="https://www.ltu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lawrence Tech University</a>, the only Michigan manufacturing product incubator that brings ideas to life, to hear how they’re investing in Michigan’s engineering and design industries.
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According to its website, Centrepolis Accelerator is &#8220;on a mission to fuel the growth of Southeast Michigan’s small manufacturers and hardware entrepreneurs by providing access to key resources including mentors, workshops, cutting-edge technologies, corporate connections, student &amp; faculty engagement, events, workspace, and a collaborative community of peers.
One Detroit producer <a href="https://twitter.com/YeaitsmewillG" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Will Glover</a> sits down with Centrepolis Accelerator Executive Director and Founder Dan Radomski to learn more about the accelerator’s impact on Michigan’s business environment and economy.
<h2>Full Transcript:</h2>
Will Glover, Host, One Detroit: Since we began our future of work town halls, we&#8217;ve heard that higher education and design are integral to Michigan having a strong economic future. Like when former Crain Senior Editor Chad Livengood said this.
Chad Livengood, Sr. Editor, Crain&#8217;s Detroit Business: Don&#8217;t go to college. You need more people to go become plumbers. We only need so many plumbers. There is a max on plumbers at some point in the economy. But right now, we cannot get enough people to write software code in this state right now.
Will Glover: Or when CEO of Tech Town Ned Staebler said this.
Ned Staebler, President &amp; CEO, Tech Town: Instead of incentivizing production facilities that pay 15, 16, $17 an hour, we should be incentivizing Ford to build out the train station or Rivian, which was here but left because they couldn&#8217;t get the talent, because those are the type of jobs that are going to power our economy.
Ned Staebler: Those are the types of jobs that Minnesota and Virginia and Colorado are stealing from us. The production jobs, yeah, they&#8217;re going to Kentucky, but Kentucky is getting poorer, too. That&#8217;s not really working anymore.
Will Glover: Or when Vice President of Strategy and Communications at the College for Creative Studies, Olga Stella said this.
Olga Stella, Vice President, Strategy &amp; Communications, College for Creative Studies: Where that we have the highest concentration of commercial industrial designers in the country. It is very much part of every industry in the region and in the state and there&#8217;s a long history here.
Will Glover: So I wanted to know how higher education and design turn into products that need to be made by the employees that fuel our economic success. Enter Centrepolis Accelerator, a company best explained by the man who runs it, Dan Radomski.
Dan Radomski, Executive Director, Centrepolis Accelerator: Centrepolis Accelerator, is located in Southfield, Michigan. It&#8217;s on the campus of Lawrence Tech University, funded by Lawrence Tech, the City of Southfield, Michigan Economic Development Corporation, as well as many other organizations and foundations.
Our mission is, despite being here in Southfield, to support the entire state of Michigan and helping people develop physical products and get them made here in Michigan. This is an example of one of the products we brought to market. It&#8217;s a magnetic button that I was mentioning.
Will Glover: Tell me how you found this hole in the market that you guys are currently occupying and what makes simply creating a product and getting it to a shelf more complicated than it seems.
Dan Radomski: Yeah, I think it might seem odd to a lot of people with this being a manufacturing state that we didn&#8217;t have an incubator or accelerator program focused on developing physical products and manufacturing them here in Michigan.
Because that&#8217;s our bench strength, right? That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re really good at, not just manufacturing, but the product development process to prepare a product for manufacturing. We&#8217;re really the best in the world at it. I mean, I would compare Michigan and the Detroit area to any place in the world that is innovative&#8230; Germany, Japan and other areas in designing, engineering, testing and driving cost and complexity out of products and ensuring that they&#8217;re going to be durable and reliable. We&#8217;re really the best in the world at it.
Will Glover: And he would know because he&#8217;s been in this field most of his life.
Dan Radomski: What he did here is he actually created a clutch that when you pull on these gives 300 pounds of resistance which is amazing. Yeah, I was really born and raised in the manufacturing. I grew up as a machinist. I&#8217;ve been in manufacturing and product development my whole life. My last job in the private industry was running an international vehicle design engineering firm.
Will Glover: Tell us what the impact of Centrepolis has been because this is the only place that&#8217;s helping people with the nuts and bolts of how to manufacture a product and get it to market.
Dan Radomski: Yeah, so we&#8217;ve been in operations Centrepolis for five years now and the impact we&#8217;ve had has just been amazing. Every company that has come in here that has had an idea for a physical product that we&#8217;ve made an investment of time and money in has officially got their product to market. That&#8217;s almost unheard of even for software companies and very difficult to do with hardware, physical products. So we&#8217;ve launched been able to launch over three dozen businesses. We&#8217;ve had the opportunity to get 50 new physical products out to market.
And more importantly, is we help these people with their ideas, finally get a product to market that&#8217;s made in Michigan. It&#8217;s also having a trickle effect to those in the local supply chain. Many of those companies are not manufacturing themselves. We connect them to local suppliers. Our clients alone over the last five years have contracted 366 contracts to Michigan manufacturers, amounting to over $24 million. So the economic multiplier of our work is rather significant to the local manufacturing community.
Will Glover: In your opinion, what is it that Michigan needs, or what is it that what direction should we be headed in to reinvigorate the manufacturing that Michigan maybe once had in the past? What do we need to be doing to breathe life back into this sector of our economy?
Dan Radomski: So one thing I&#8217;ll say is one of the most valuable parts of our manufacturing value chain is the product design and engineering part of it. So you have to set that aside from the actual manufacturing of making things, the actual value of designing and engineering and testing and prototyping. We&#8217;re still the best in the world at that, and there&#8217;s literally thousands of firms here in Michigan that do that today. And largely what we&#8217;ve done is harness that power and that talent that&#8217;s already here.
Will Glover: What I&#8217;m hearing you say is that they might have the reputation on the coasts, but we&#8217;re backing up that reputation with our brainpower and ability when it comes to product design and manufacturing and that kind of thing.
Dan Radomski: Yeah. So as people learn, as investors learn and startups have learned about Centrepolis&#8217; capabilities, they have been working with us and some have actually moved here. We&#8217;ve had about a dozen companies move from the Silicon Valley area to Michigan very specifically to work with Centrepolis to help them design and engineer and develop their products.
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All across Michigan, a shortage of childcare availability and rising childcare costs have persisted, leaving some working women with few options other than to stay home and forego a job for parenthood. Nearly 1.1 million women left the workforce from February 2020 to January 2022, and<a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/diversity-and-inclusion/seven-charts-that-show-covid-19s-impact-on-womens-employment"> a disproportionate number of women</a> — 23% compared to 13% of men —  considered leaving their careers for motherhood.
RELATED: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkt25jl7pws" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The impact of women leaving the workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic</a>
RELATED: <a href="https://greatstarttoquality.org/calculator/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Check to see if you’re eligible for childcare assistance in Michigan</a>
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer&#8217;s<a href="https://www.michigan.gov/whitmer/news/press-releases/2022/08/09/40-percent-of-michigan-working-families-with-kids-under-12-eligible-for-free-or-low-cost-child-care"> latest childcare announcements</a> have expanded the state&#8217;s efforts to re-strengthen the childcare industry, but how will those efforts roll out across the state? And what other changes does Michigan need to make childcare more affordable and accessible?
RELATED: <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/lara/news-releases/2022/09/13/gov-whitmer-launches-new-program-to-help-open-new-child-care-programs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gov. Whitmer Launches New Program to Help Entrepreneurs Open New Child Care Programs, Increase Availability of Affordable Care for Parents</a>
Guest host <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/trudy-gallant-stokes-a1195110/">Trudy Gallant-Stokes</a> talks with<a href="https://www.michigan.gov/mwc"> Michigan Women’s Commission</a> Commissioner<a href="https://www.michigan.gov/mwc/commissioners/charity-r-dean"> Charity Dean</a> and<a href="https://inforummichigan.org/"> InForum</a> CEO<a href="https://twitter.com/terrybarclay"> Terry Barclay</a>, about the decline of women in the workforce, the impact of childcare, and how Gov. Whitmer’s latest<a href="https://www.michigan.gov/lara/news-releases/2022/09/13/gov-whitmer-launches-new-program-to-help-open-new-child-care-programs"> childcare legislation</a> may help working women and their families.
This story comes from One Detroit&#8217;s Future of Work Virtual Town Hall, &#8220;Women in the Workforce.&#8221; Watch the full <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/one-detroit/future-of-work-town-hall-women-in-the-workforce/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">town hall here</a>.
<h2>Full Transcript:</h2>
Trudy Gallant-Stokes, Guest Host, Future of Work Town Hall: While women gained 188,000 thousand jobs in January 2022, they are still short by more than 1.8 million jobs lost since February 2020. But in August, Governor Whitmer passed the free childcare expansion, making 40% of Michigan families eligible for free or low-cost childcare. So that&#8217;s where we&#8217;ll start the conversation today. I&#8217;m a third-generation working woman, and now I have two daughters who are working women. One is a new mom. And I just find it extremely frustrating that we seem like we keep having to have these conversations.
How do the two of you feel? Does it feel like two steps forward and then one step back? Are we making any progress?
Terry Barclay, President &amp; CEO, Inforum: The causes for that are many. But I do think that childcare is a central concern for men and women in the workforce. The stresses on families, whether they could afford childcare or not, even in many cases when they could afford childcare, there was sort of a lack of stability because of the pandemic.
Terry Barclay: And they would not know from day to day whether those services were going to be available. So there&#8217;s no question that if we want to solve the talent shortage, we need to look at what services are we providing to support healthy families in Michigan.
Trudy Gallant-Stokes: Well, I guess it is encouraging that we do have this bipartisan effort now and been announced by Governor Whitmer and hopefully this providing low-cost childcare. And 40% of Michiganders, if they qualify, that will make a huge difference, will it not, Charity?
Charity Dean, Commissioner, Michigan Women&#8217;s Commission: We still have so much, so much to go. Women unemployment rate is still higher than men&#8217;s unemployment rate. But the first step is saying, how are we looking at who&#8217;s eligible for assistance for childcare? Right. And how do we make sure that even the working poor have access to this great resource?
I think, as a Michigan Women&#8217;s Commissioner, we spent a lot of time when we were first when the governor was first elected. We went around the state and we held conversations for women. And this is pre-pandemic. And we said, what are your issues? We had conversations in the U.P., we had conversations in Grand Rapids. I hosted one in Detroit. And, back then the Michigan Women&#8217;s Commission was placed in civil rights.
And as a result of all these conversations, what we realized and what we know, what we&#8217;re talking about today is that women&#8217;s issues are economic issues. And so in order to help solve that problem, the Michigan Women&#8217;s Commission actually moved and now we&#8217;re placed in LEO. And the Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity. And the goal is how do we solve for these very critical problems that are impacting half of our population? Right. And so the first thing is this bipartisan effort to help expand eligibility for childcare. And I&#8217;m sure later we&#8217;re going to talk about our Tri-Share program as well, which is another great tool to help women.
Trudy Gallant-Stokes: So Terry, you obviously are communicating directly with top management and companies. What do you hear from them and what do you hear from those people who have just decided, I can&#8217;t keep this corporate job. Do they want onsite childcare? Do they want vouchers? What are they looking for?
Terry Barclay: Well, I think oh, gosh, Trudy. There&#8217;s layers to that question, right? So, first of all, there&#8217;s no question, Charity mentioned it. Women&#8217;s leadership is good for the economy. And there&#8217;s study after study that shows that there was a multi-university study that was published in April of 2021 that looked at 150 companies, and they saw that after women joined, top management teams, firms became more open to change, less open to untoward risk.
And tended to shift away from a merger and acquisition focus to strategies that were more about investing and growing the businesses and growing the jobs, growing opportunities for employees. And growing through R&amp;D. So, we see that women&#8217;s participation at all levels of companies makes a positive difference. There&#8217;s a lot of research there, but we have a ways to go. You know, Inforum has for 20 years now published the Michigan Women&#8217;s Leadership Report. Where we look at the 100 largest companies that are headquartered in the state. And while there has been some progress for women in board positions.
Particularly at larger publicly held companies. I think one of the biggest takeaways is how slow that progress has been. And, to Charity&#8217;s point, how the inequities have just been persistent for all those years. The percentage of women of color on boards has not changed in 20 years. And so it&#8217;s like it&#8217;s kind of like, what&#8217;s that about? So there&#8217;s work to be done. And I think that as companies, we see high level of interest in companies on the part of companies and sort of unpacking this and figuring out what they can do to make the change.
And so one of the things that has really emerged from the talent shortage is that women want more from their employers now in terms of workplace culture and investment in employee wellness and family wellness. And when they don&#8217;t see it, they move on. Or they deselect. And secondly, they want work that&#8217;s meaningful to them.
So we&#8217;re starting to see data that says that top talent, the workers we need to power our economy in Michigan, are looking for companies that are making those investments in childcare support that will help them manage all of their lives so that they can be present at work.
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Michigan’s Childcare Challenges Have Displaced Women From the Workforce. Will New Legislation Help Them Return?

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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Women in the Workforce: Affordable Childcare for Working Moms</h2>
​All across Michigan a shortage of childcare availability and rising childcare costs have persisted leaving some working women few other options than to stay home and forego a job for parenthood.
According to a <a href="https://www.bls.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics</a> federal study, nearly 1.1 million women left the workforce from February 2020 to January 2022. As childcare centers closed in 2020, a disproportionate number of women with children under 10 years old — 23% compared to 13% of men — considered leaving the workforce, <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/diversity-and-inclusion/seven-charts-that-show-covid-19s-impact-on-womens-employment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to a McKinsey &amp; Company report</a>. 
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RELATED: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkt25jl7pws" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The impact of women leaving the workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic</a>
Michigan <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/whitmer/news/press-releases/2022/08/09/40-percent-of-michigan-working-families-with-kids-under-12-eligible-for-free-or-low-cost-child-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gov. Gretchen Whitmer&#8217;s latest announcement</a>, a bipartisan investment that plans to provide free or low-cost childcare to more than 150,000 kids and their families, expands her efforts to re-strengthen Michigan&#8217;s childcare industry and allow more women to get back to work. How the efforts will begin to roll out across the state are still to be seen.
RELATED: <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/lara/news-releases/2022/09/13/gov-whitmer-launches-new-program-to-help-open-new-child-care-programs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gov. Whitmer Launches New Program to Help Entrepreneurs Open New Child Care Programs, Increase Availability of Affordable Care for Parents</a>
RELATED: <a href="https://greatstarttoquality.org/calculator/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Check to see if you&#8217;re eligible for childcare assistance in Michigan</a>
One Detroit&#8217;s September <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/future-of-work/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Future of Work</a> virtual town hall explores the impact of childcare on women in the workforce. This town hall continues One Detroit&#8217;s cumulative, <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/?s=women+in+the+workforce" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ongoing </a>conversation involving women in the workforce and their impact on the future of work.
Guest host <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/trudy-gallant-stokes-a1195110/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trudy Gallant-Stokes</a> speaks with <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/mwc/commissioners/charity-r-dean" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charity Dean</a>, a commissioner on the <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/mwc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan Women&#8217;s Commission</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/terrybarclay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Terry Barclay</a>, the CEO of <a href="https://inforummichigan.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">InForum</a>, a business accelerator for women, about the decline of women from Michigan&#8217;s labor force, the impact of childcare and online learning on women in the workforce, and how Michigan&#8217;s latest childcare legislation is geared to help working women and their families.
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Trudy Gallant-Stokes has more than 30 years experience in all aspects of the media. Her background includes work as a radio reporter and anchor at WSPD-AM in Toledo, Ohio and WOMC-FM in Detroit. She has also worked as a reporter, anchor/host and producer at WTOL- TV in Toledo, Ohio &amp; WTVS (Detroit Public Television) where she hosted &#8220;Detroit Black Journal,&#8221; “Video Detroit” and produced several award-winning documentaries, including “Sidewalk High,&#8221; which is part of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.
She has served as the Detroit Correspondent for &#8220;BET News&#8221; (Black Entertainment Television) and for “Nightly Business Report” on PBS. In addition, she has served as a contributor to “Black Enterprise” magazine, writing several cover stories. Trudy is an honors graduate of Michigan State University, with a degree in telecommunications.
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Charity Dean is the President and CEO of the Metro Detroit Black Business Alliance (MDBBA). The MDBBA serves as the Black Chamber of Commerce serving Black businesses in Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb County. Charity is the former Director of Civil Rights, Inclusion, and Opportunity for the City of Detroit where she was responsible for investigating civil rights violations in the city of Detroit.
She currently serves as the President of the Grandmont Community Association and as an advisory committee member of the Detroit Women&#8217;s Leadership Network and is an active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
Charity Dean was also a fellow with the Michigan Political Leadership Program and is currently a member of the Wolverine Bar Association and the State Bar of Michigan. In 2019, Charity was appointed by Governor Whitmer to the Michigan Women&#8217;s Commission. She also serves on Oakland University Alumni Association Board and on the board of Neighborhood Legal Services of Michigan. Charity was named Crain&#8217;s Detroit 40 under 40 in 2020 for her role in leading the City of Detroit&#8217;s small business response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Charity earned her bachelor&#8217;s degree in Political Science from Oakland University and her juris doctorate from The University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, where she also currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law. A lifelong Detroiter, Charity lives in the city with her husband Erik Dean and her children Elijah and Lauren.
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The Michigan Barber School, a historic Detroit barbershops and school that&#8217;s known for providing training opportunities to aspiring African American barbers and hairstylists, celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. Founded in <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/american-black-journal/12-09-18-american-black-journal-black-bottom-historical-marker-junior/">Detroit&#8217;s Black Bottom neighborhood</a> in 1947, the barber school and public shop has since moved to a newer 6,000-square-foot space, but the school&#8217;s mission to prepare students for the barbering business hasn&#8217;t changed.  
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Michigan Barber School Director Saul Green sits down with &#8220;American Black Journal&#8221; guest host Trudy Gallant-Stokes, who&#8217;s filling in for Stephen Henderson, to talk about the 75-year history of the Black-owned and operated barber school founded by his father. The duo reflects on the barber school’s success in training and producing expert licensed and educated barbers, stylists and entrepreneurs. 
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Trudy Gallant-Stokes, Guest Host, American Black Journal: Back to the beginning. Started by your father, Forest Green. And he came to Detroit. And he already had that heritage of the Barber College from the South.
Saul Green, Director, Michigan Barber School: That&#8217;s correct, Trudy. My dad is from East Point, Georgia, which is just outside of Atlanta, the suburbs of Atlanta. And his father had a barbershop there in East Point as he was growing up. And so he learned the trade there in the barbershop. My dad went on to Morehouse College there in Atlanta.
And cut a lot of hair when he was in Atlanta at Morehouse; cut a lot of his students&#8217; hair. He often talked about the business he had going as a student. And so there were very early roots. And then there was part of the Great Migration that came here in the mid-1930s to Detroit after graduating from Morehouse.
Trudy Gallant-Stokes: So great opportunities in Detroit, I know, but still a lot of limitations back then. What were the challenges that he faced when he came here?
Saul Green: Well, first of all, his degree from Morehouse was in social work, so he worked for several different social work organizations in Detroit. Found that it just wasn&#8217;t quite what was exciting for him. He still loved barbering and he was an entrepreneur. And so he looked around though and he saw that the opportunities for Black men and women to become barbers was limited in Detroit. To become even then, a licensed barber, you had to go to barber school. You had to graduate from a barber school, and then you had to pass a state examination.
When he started Michigan Barber School, the Black students, people who wanted to become barbers, Black persons, they could go to what was called the theory part of barber school, learning about the history of barbering, sanitation, that type of thing. But then you couldn&#8217;t cut white people&#8217;s hair in the barber school.
So then you were apprenticed out to barber shops in order to get that segment of the education. He thought that was wrong and actually had to get go through a process with the state to get the barber school approved so that it could do both&#8230; That we could teach theory and have the practical portion of people coming in for barber services. So it was, it wasn&#8217;t an easy start, but he was determined and clearly it has worked out.
Trudy Gallant-Stokes: So that&#8217;s excellent. Talk about the first location and paint the picture of what Detroit was like back then and what that neighborhood was like.
Saul Green: Well, as many Detroiters know, either based on perhaps having been around or certainly the history of Detroit, that Detroit, of course, was highly segregated, both residentially and from a business perspective. And there were only certain places in Detroit that Black people could live, and there were only certain places that Black people could open businesses.
One of those areas was Black Bottom, where there was a large concentration of Black businesses. From barbershops to cleaners to entertainment spots to whatever the services and needs of the Black community were. They were, for the most part, located there in Black Bottom. So he, of course, ended up with his first location on Hastings Street, which was the renowned main street of Black Bottom. And the Michigan Barber School had its beginnings there.
Trudy Gallant-Stokes: Absolutely. And not only is Hastings Street, like you said, so renowned before it was destroyed, that whole neighborhood. But then barbershops in the Black community have always historically been a place where people kind of gather. So what was it like back then?
Saul Green: Well, so in all honesty, since they actually started&#8230;
Trudy Gallant-Stokes: Before your time&#8230;
Saul Green: But I did visit the school as a child, but don&#8217;t have a lot of recollections of it. I think there&#8217;s some pictures that might be available for everybody to see. It&#8217;ll give, I think, a real flavor of what it was like. It was small in relationship to what we have now. Now we&#8217;ve got about 50 chairs that we can accommodate people. Back then, I think there was less than 20. And the first, interestingly enough, the first class had one woman and so that we were educating Black women in barber, even going back that far. It&#8217;s the next move over to Adams. The second location was on Adams Street that I was more familiar with.
Trudy Gallant-Stokes: Okay. So Adams Street downtown?
Saul Green: Yes. Where Comerica Park is essentially is where the Michigan Barber School was until 1963 when it moved on to Grand River.
Trudy Gallant-Stokes: Okay. And became an institution out there on Grand River and still there.
Saul Green: Absolutely. Absolutely.
Trudy Gallant-Stokes: Do you have particular success stories that either you remember or that your dad told you about, about people who came through those doors and I don&#8217;t know, maybe started a barber shop of their own or maybe went on to other great things?
Saul Green: Well, the number of people that we have impacted over 75 years. First of all, just the sheer number we&#8217;re talking about thousands of people who have gone to Michigan Barber School, become licensed and are operating in Detroit and around Michigan and really around the country. We get, we hear from our former students who have moved on to places. To Florida, New York, other states where they are doing very well. And they are extremely appreciative of what Michigan Barber School taught them. They often say that the best barbers come from Michigan and the best Michigan barbers come from Michigan Barber School.
So we have spread our talents nationwide. But it was a place where a lot of entertainers came where I mean, back in the &#8217;50s and &#8217;60s, the difference in hairstyles was significant. I mean, on a Friday or Saturday night at the Michigan Barber School, half of the chairs would be filled with people getting, men getting their hair straightened. And as it was called back then, compted with the finger waves and so forth. And so I got a chance to watch all of that unfold because my dad really started taking me to&#8230; I started accompanying my dad to barber school when I was around 12-13 years old.
I would go down on Saturdays and just help out. Whether it was sweeping up there or ringing the cash register, doing whatever was necessary. So I&#8217;ve seen this transition over a long, long period of time and it&#8217;s been amazing.
Trudy Gallant-Stokes: So now you&#8217;re celebrating the 75th anniversary of Michigan Barber School. So tell us about the event coming up in November.
Saul Green: Well, again, when you, we thought about just how amazing it is to be in existence for 75 years. I often tell our students, particularly if we&#8217;re bringing in a new class, I ask them, how long does the average business, small business last in the United States. And they guess all sorts of different numbers.
And I tell them that on the SBA, Small Business Administration website, they say the average rate of time is eight and a half years. So when you&#8217;re approaching almost eight decades, you ought to do something significant. So we&#8217;re having an event at the International Banquet Center in downtown Detroit at Monroe, where we will commemorate both the founding and all of the important contributions of the Michigan Barber School. Also, we&#8217;re going to take good time to recognize a number of our recent graduates. We have been doing graduations but COVID kind of squelched that. And so we&#8217;re going to also take the time to recognize recent graduates.
Trudy Gallant-Stokes: Exciting. We look forward to that. And of course, you didn&#8217;t become a barber, but you&#8217;ve had an incredible legal career in the community and a public servant. And from U.S. attorney to deputy mayor representing Aretha Franklin at times. So you have done it all and we appreciate your support in this community. And I&#8217;m sure that was because of your dad&#8217;s encouragement and laying that foundation.
Saul Green: There&#8217;s no question about it. My dad and my mom, because I have to say, my mom worked there at the barber school in an administrative capacity for a long period of time. But I also have to correct you to say I am a barber. There&#8217;s no Green who doesn&#8217;t become a barber. And so I cut hair all through undergrad and law school. And I must admit, I tell people often that I think that maybe the qualities of being in the barbershop and those kinds of interactions that you have may be as important to having become a pretty good lawyer and some of the things I&#8217;ve accomplished as anything else that I&#8217;ve experienced. So the Michigan Barber School has played a big role in my life.
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