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I drove past it my first day and crinkled my nose, fresh off How to Kill a City. A record shop capitalizing on grunginess? Shameful. The front has lined-up vintage-looking posters for movements from around the world and locally (I finally noticed the U-M LEO one), and the neon sign reads, “NO MORE WAR.” I […]

A privilege of getting to work from home is the freedom it grants you to choose where you want to spend your day working. A well-established passion of mine is foolishly spending too much money on expensive coffee, so my placement this summer has been wonderful for enabling me to drink as much coffee as possible

You know what’s funny — I created the “Joy’s Detroit Life” titling to be partially ironic and partially for branding. I honestly find my titling rather cheesy, but I gotta stay #onbrand, so here we go. A standout moment that I’ve had during my time in Detroit actually happened this past Wednesday. The Detroit Actor’s

One of the best experiences that I have had through the DCBRP program is the Juneteenth event. The event far exceeded my expectations! I thought that we were going to be lectured to, but the amount of engagement from us in the audience  along with performances made it a truly remarkable event. Another amazing aspect

Happy Thursday, sort of! I’m posting this blog on-time-ish for the first time in a couple of weeks, and i’m pretty proud of myself. This week’s prompt is to write about an experience that has stood out to us outside of the program, and what immediately came to mind is the time I’ve spent with

Hi! This evening I attended the Third Thursday Speaker Series at Detroit Historical Museum and I would like to talk about my experience in this post. The topic of the panel discussion was titled, “Detroit: Tale of Two Cities”. Among the four speakers, it seemed that they were evenly split on each side of the

The following is a story of how late one night on the campus of Wayne State University, I began tossing Frisbee with three random dudes. It was just after sunset on this particular warm June Friday, and a group of us interns were walking home from a free planetarium showing put on by WSUs Astronomy

Initially, I was going to write about something else for this week’s post but after our Thursday meeting today, I would like to take the time out to thank Lia, Chloe, Skylar, and Charlie for choosing this event for the group. The event was the Third Thursday Speaker Series: Detroit: A Tale of Two Cities and

It was like any other Wednesday (but then again, no Wednesday is ordinary because it’s that special time of the week when the best and brightest gather in the local watering hole for a contest of champions). A number of our finest were headed to Great Lakes Roasting Company to defend our trivia title (we’ve

One of the things I that helps me get through my day is the commuting conversations I have with Emma on the way to and from our placements. I am a carpool driver and Emma is my passenger. I was a little worried about being a carpool driver when we started the program. Similar to