Juan Carlos Dueweke-Perez started Featherstone Moments, a marketing company, to close the gap in minority business ownership by helping people of color attain resources and capital.
A few years ago, Salvador Enriquez nearly closed down his business, Carniceria Guadalajara. But his daughter saw the potential for growth and convinced the Mexican immigrant to expand his butcher shop instead.
Tom Nardone, who earlier started the Detroit Mower Gang to cut grass in parks around the city, has now been helping to clean up the Detroit River by fishing for trash with a team of volunteers.
Dr. Mark Beard, founder of Medicina Urbina, combines osteopathic medical techniques with standard medical practices in his holistic approach to health and wellness.
Samantha Magdaleno has been an activist for almost her entire life. Today she's a director at One Michigan, which provides resources to immigrant communities and supports those involved in deportation cases.
For the first entry in a series on family-run businesses, we spoke with Ashley Danto Silverman, the fourth generation in her family to work at Danto Furniture, a 78-year-old business started by Danto Silverman's great-grandfather.
Starting with a single taco truck owned by her father, Nancy Lopez has parlayed that into three more trucks, an outdoor patio, and a Mexican burger concept. And she's done it with twists on classic recipes.
AGI Construction, a southwest-Detroit based construction company, is working to build a resilient community through its development projects, engagement efforts, and future resource program.
Teenagers at southwest Detroit's Western International HS aren't just sitting back and watching the world go by. On the contrary, they're leading and participating in campaigns to raise awareness of the most important social issues of the day.
Called "The West Vernor Corridor Neighborhood Framework," the plan contains infrastructure developments, building RFPs, policy recommendations, and more over the next three years.
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