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Writing, Editing, Project Management – Experience OnStar

Being managing editor of Connected Journey (ExperienceOnstar.com) meant more than proofreading for grammar and punctuation. I had the honor of collaborating with a team of writers, art directors and buyers, video production specialists, digital designers and developers, social media engineers and others to produce content that won best blog gold at both the 2014 and 2015 Pearl Awards. 

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Keeping neighborhoods safer, healthier

Genevive Meeks was 19 when AmeriCorps members began boarding up abandoned homes in her Detroit neighborhood. “There were open holes where there was a lot of drug trafficking,” she says. Afterward, she says the neighborhood felt different. “I know the kids felt safer going to school. It wasn’t just every person for themselves anymore.” While working on her street, a

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Jazz hands: Connecting with kids with math and care

The day starts with breakfast, though that’s not what gets the kids going. Enthusiastic hugs, high fives and groan-worthy riddles set the tone as staff celebrate the students and one another during morning assembly. No one needs to tell them when it’s time to sit and listen. They just do. That’s because they know math isn’t the focus of Math

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Nonprofits take learning beyond the last bell

The new presidential administration and questions about funding for school, after school and summer learning programs have amplified the national conversation about how we instruct our children. While many focus on traditional school day programs, some experts say out-of-school programs are equally, if not more, important to the development of today’s youth. Children spend about 20 percent of their waking

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Arts leaders DiChiera, Slatkin and Fisher discuss funding, diversity and why they shouldn’t have to justify the arts

A condensed version of this story was originally published in Crain’s Detroit Business. By Leslie D. Green Come June, metro Detroit’s arts world will begin significant transformation. That’s when David DiChiera resigns after 46 years as artistic director of the Michigan Opera Theatre, Leonard Slatkin begins prepping for his 10th and last season as conductor and music director of the Detroit Symphony

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