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CEO of Alternatives For Girls since 1988. A Detroit resident since 1982, Ms. Good has over 25 years experience managing and directing human services programs serving children and families in Detroit, including directing a child abuse and neglect program just prior to helping to launch the grassroots effort that created AFG in 1987.Lisa Gottlieb
Co-founder of Selma Cafe. She organizes and facilitates the Friday morning breakfasts, oversees fundraisers for Selma Cafe activities, writes the website blog, and co-facilitates the hoop house builds with her husband. Lisa is also a full-time school social worker for the Washtenaw County Juvenile Jail, where she started a vegetable and flower garden for the youth in the facility.Dr. Joel Kahn
Graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Michigan School of Medicine and has been practicing cardiology for over 20 years. He serves as the Medical Director of Employee Wellness, Preventive Cardiology and Cardiac Rehabilitation at the Detroit Medical Center and serves as a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine.Matthew Naimi
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Author Archives: Avalon
The Lost Art of Transformation
For most suburban kids, exploring Detroit wasn’t exactly encouraged. Whether your parents sold you on its bad reputation, or the city just never gave you a good reason to visit, the skyline was always just looming (safely) in the distance. … Continue reading
Feeding Detroit’s Future
Drive toward downtown from virtually any direction and you’ll probably pass through one of Detroit’s ‘food deserts’ which, simply put, are areas with limited access to affordable, healthy food options. But keep driving and you’ll hit what news outlets from … Continue reading
The Business of Hope
Though Detroit has long been a destination for the creative class, the city also attracts another archetype: Individuals who’ve built a life around helping others transform their own. They are the activists who start movements, philanthropists who use their means … Continue reading
