The most important thing I’ve learned from the DCERP group meetings is to trust that everyone takes their own unique journey and will end up exactly where they need to be. It often feels like we’re forced to decide what we want our career to be when we’re as young as middle and high school: …
The novel “How to Kill a City” by P.E. Moskowitz tells the story of various cities’ gentrification. The book prefaces a lot of this with the economic model for gentrification that allows the process to take off. A lot of factors come into play and there’s a lot of variance between the different cases of …
Dear fellows, As I reflect on my experience with the DCERP group meetings, I can’t help but be in awe of my fellows (all of you guys). Their true commitment to social justice and to Detroit was evident in their learning group presentations. I know that these times can be very demanding, yet all of …
I’ve learned soooo much from the DCERP meetings. Being a Detroit native, it’s lowkey embarrassing how much I didn’t know about my own city so the learning groups were easily one of if not my favorite part of the summer. They brought light to a lot of not only issues within Detroit but also the …
I really enjoyed the presentations that each learning group put on. I thought the fellows, in addition to working full time jobs and juggling life, presented really thoughtful and powerful presentations. I thought each group brought their own style to each topic, thought of ways to be engaging, while teaching the group on an important …
Though it’s not perfectly fresh in my mind, my reading of How to Kill a City challenged, changed, and strengthened my understanding of gentrification. I appreciated the author’s detailed explanation of the “steps” of the gentrification process—this was something new to me, especially to understand that it normally begins in an innocuous way with the …
After reading this novel, I now see gentrification in a new light. Before reading this novel, I automatically paired it with Detroit or surroundings cities. I didn’t realize how much it affects other cities such as New Orleans or San Francisco. I always thought these cities were constantly thriving and very popular areas. Now I …
It’s insane how fast time flies and how we’re already finishing up week 8. I feel like it was only yesterday when I wrote my letter to my future self and yet here we are! These past few weeks I have been blessed to have been informed so much from not only guest speakers thanks …
Upon joining Nortown CDC and reading “How to Kill a City,” I realized that my previous experiences with Detroit were very one-sided. While in middle school and high school, I volunteered with an organization to help serve homeless people in the Midtown/Cass Corridor area. I had always thought of this as the rougher side of …
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Before I get into anything I can just say how shook I am that it’s week 8?! I felt like as the internship went on, the faster it became, and now I’m already here. I’m about to complete my first UM internship; that’s so exciting!! Hopefully meeting with the rest of the fellows doesn’t end …
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