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Featured Profile » Sydney Turner, 33, City of Detroit Labor and Employment Attorney

"People who work at the City of Detroit work hard. It's just the plain truth."

Detroit Transplant » Magi, 28, WSU Law Student & Musician

"My favorite place to go in Detroit is the DIA. My favorite things to do besides checking out art at the museums are skating ledges and handrails in midtown".

Featured Profile » My-Ishia Cason-Brown, 29, Actress, Dancer, and Model

"Detroit is my home and it's where my family is. I was inspired most by my mother, she exposed me to museums, theaters, and opened me to appreciate life and everything in it".

Featured Profile » Melinda Anderson, 34, Founder of MeMe Design & Events

"I stay here because it is my desire and dream to build the impossible. I love Detroit and believe in the possibility of it becoming a truly great city".

Featured Profile » Lauren Henrikson, 23, Founder of Detroit’s Free Store

"I think the city is poetic. Its history, its current condition. And the fact that at this point, if you have enough energy, you can really try anything here".

Featured Profile » Shannon Reaves, 31, Co-Owner of Bath Savvy

"I hope for passionate entrepreneurs, creative young people and business leaders to support a change in this city to be a success story unlike any other American city has done!"

Featured Profile » Marcel Friday, 25, Publisher of WhutUpDoe!

"We're in control of our destiny. We're in control of our own future and the less action you take today, the more negativity happens tomorrow".

Featured Profile » David Merritt, 23, Founder of I Miss You, INC.

"I don't see our current situation as a problem, I see it as a world of opportunity. An opportunity for each and every one of us to make a difference."

Posts tagged ‘Declare Detroit’

Something Viral » Have you signed the Detroit Declaration yet?

January 23rd, 2010

The interwebs have been buzzing with a new political blog campaign called Detroit Declaration. The blog features media and documents urging locals to sign the petition that will ” work towards what Detroit can become tomorrow”.