The Model D and Next American City April 8 Event is Full

Sign up for Model D’s two upcoming Speaker Series events. Both require registration and space is limited, so read on to sign up.

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First up: Model D Speaker Series with Open City on March 24 at Cliff Bell’s. The topic is using media — especially viral and social media — to build buzz about your exciting Detroit project.

The panel includes Terry Bean, chief networking officer of Networked Inc. and founder of Motor City Connect, and Charlie Wollborg, founding partner and “chief troublemaker” of Curve Detroit Advertising, Marketing and Design and community builder of Motor City Connect.

The event is 6:30-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, March. 24 at Cliff Bell’s, 2030 Park Ave. It’s free, but space is limited, so you must sign up in advance here.

This event is presented by Open City and Model D. Open
City is a forum for aspiring and existing business owners to exchange
ideas and information about doing business in the city. For more
information, go to www.opencitydetroit.com

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Second up: Model D will host Next American City magazine as the national publication brings its Urbanexus series here. The April 8 event will be at College for Creative Studies in Midtown. Sign up here.

The topic is “Who Moves to Detroit?” We’ll discuss how Detroit can reposition itself as a city of opportunity, who is moving in, what are trends in housing and development, and what are barriers and opportunities to create a broader movement to Detroit.

The panel event is free. There is a VIP reception to follow — $15 in advance, $20 at the door — that includes a year subscription to Next American City magazine.

Space is limited for the panel as well as the reception, so must sign up in advance to attend. Sign up and details are here.

The event is sponsored by Next American City, Model D and the Hudson-Webber Foundation.

The panel features smart, creative people who have chosen Detroit as their home:

• Kirsten Ussery is a North Carolina native and director of communications for Detroit Renaissance,
  which provides leadership from CEOs across the region, working together
  to accelerate the economic transformation of Detroit and Southeast
  Michigan. She previously worked in communications for
  automotive-related companies. She lives in Detroit’s West Village
  neighborhood, is on the neighborhood association board, and she does
  public relations work for The Villages Community Development Corporation.

• Luis Croquer is a recent Detroit transplant, a few months ago he joined
  the city’s new Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit as its
  director. Raised in El Salvador by his diplomat father, he has worked
  and lived all over the world. He came to Detroit from New York City’s
  El Museo Del Barrio, where he oversaw its special projects. He was a
  Fulbright scholar and studied at the State University of New
  York at Purchase. He also received a BA in anthropology and
  communications at Goldsmith’s College in London.

• Toby Barlow is ad man, author and Detroit convert. He’s an executive creative director at the JWT Team Detroit
  advertising agency. The former New Yorker now lives in a spectacular
  Mies van der Rohe-designed home in Detroit’s historic Lafayette Park
  neighborhood. His modern masterpiece was was recently featured on the
  cover of Dwell Magazine. Barlow is also an author, having penned his
  first novel, Sharp Teeth, and has received much acclaim for the work.

• Editor-In-Chief of Chicago-based design magazine CS Interiors,
  Meghan McEwen moved from Chicago to Detroit four years ago in search of
  a pared-down lifestyle and opportunities to be involved in the
  revitalization of Detroit. She and her husband renovated an old
  Victorian in Corktown, where they work, live and play with their two
  young sons. She spends free time volunteering as a New Wave board
  member at MOCAD, cultivating a vegetable garden in her backyard, and
  riding her bike around the city with her three-year-old strapped to the
  back.
• Moderator David O. Egner is a St. Louis native who as a long
  history of service to Detroit. He is president and CEO of the
  Hudson-Webber Foundation, a private grantmaking foundation with assets
  of $130 million,
  offering grants primarily within the City of Detroit with a focus on
  the revitalization of the urban core. Among his many other civic
  involvements, Egner serves as chair of Michigan Future, the Detroit
  Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), and Leadership Detroit.