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VIDEO: Khalil Ligon

DETROIT LIVES! Friday, May 10, 2013
Khalil Ligon is the project manager of the Lower Eastside Action Plan (LEAP), a grassroots community organization that seeks to address land use issues and development planning on Detroit's lower-east side. Video by DETROIT LIVES!read on…

VIDEO: Portraits of Detroit Innovation

Marvin Shaouni Monday, April 22, 2013
Urban Innovation Exchange (UIX) and Model D Media photographer Marvin Shaouni put together this fantastic video collection of his portraits highlighting the urban innovators we have profiled in UIX over the last year. read on…

VIDEO: Erik Howard

DETROIT LIVES! Monday, April 01, 2013
Erik Howard is the co-founder of Young Nation, a non-profit organization that promotes holistic development of youth in urban settings through building relationships, community education, and passion-driven projects. See him and several other UIX innovators on Friday, April 12 starting at 5:30 p.m. at MoCAD as UIX celebrates our one-year anniversary with a special UIX+ArtXDetroit discussion on placemaking. Video by DETROIT LIVES! for Detroit Creative Corridor Center. read on…

VIDEO: Chazz Miller

DETROIT LIVES! Thursday, March 14, 2013
Chazz Miller is founder and director of Public Art Workz (P.A.W.S.), an organization in northwest Detroit creating innovative public art projects that inspire and encourage community participation, and the artistic visionary who joined John George and Alicia Marion to create Artist Village, the micro-neighborhood that is headquarters to Motor City Blight Busters. Video by DETROIT LIVES! for Detroit Creative Corridor Center. read on…

VIDEO: Kimo Frederiksen

DETROIT LIVES! Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Kimo Frederiksen owns True Body Fitness in Corktown, an intimate fitness center that offers one-on-one personal training in a private atmosphere as well as group classes. He has also partnered with the Ruth Ellis Center in Highland Park to mentor one of their youths. In everything he does, Frederiksen is helping to change lives one little bit at a time. Video by DETROIT LIVES!read on…

VIDEO: Rishi Jaitly

RB Conference Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Kiva Detroit co-founder Rishi Jaitly talks about his work with Kiva Detroit and the Knight Foundation at the Revitalization & Business Initiative's Detroit Shift conference, held at the University of Michigan's School of Business is association with Model D's IdeaLab. Video by RB Conference.read on…

VIDEO: Andy Didorosi

DETROIT LIVES! Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Andy Didorosi is a "social entrepreneur" (not a self-proscribed title, but one he graciously accepts). As the founder of the Paper Street small business incubator in Ferndale and the Detroit Bus Company, a tech-savvy biofuel-powered "transit revolution," Didorosi sees the changes happening in Detroit from multiple perspectives -- slow, humble, and ultimately surprising. Video by DETROIT LIVES!read on…

VIDEO: Dave Mancini

DETROIT LIVES! Thursday, December 06, 2012
Dave Mancini, owner of Supino Pizzeria (one of Detroit's most popular and most nationally-recognized eateries), remembers the days when he was first starting out in his little Eastern Market pizza parlor when Jerry Belanger, owner of the Park Bar, would come in and order a dozen pizzas ... just to give them away in his bar. By doing this, Belanger helped Mancini build his loyal customer base, and he has never forgotten that. "Competition is not a problem right now," he says, and he makes those same efforts to help others just getting their start. Video by DETROIT LIVES!read on…

VIDEO: Peggy Brennan

DETROIT LIVES! Friday, November 09, 2012
Peggy and Tom Brennan might not know what the long-lasting implications of Green Garage will be for future generations, but they're excited at the prospects. Midtown's Green Garage is a green business incubator, office and workshop space, and community hub for people dedicated to a more sustainable way of living. They consider themselves the grandparents of a movement that they hope will reverberate for generations to come. Video by DETROIT LIVES!read on…

VIDEO: John George

DETROIT LIVES! Friday, October 26, 2012
John George, founder of Motor City Blight Busters, says enough with all the talking: "Get off your ass and do something." Which is exactly how Blight Busters came to be. Tired of a house in his neighborhood being used as a crack house, he took it upon himself to board it up. Since then the nonprofit has boarded up, secured, demolished, rebuilt, repainted or otherwise positively impacted some 1,500 houses in the city with 120,000 volunteers logging almost 700,000 hours. You want change? Do it yourself. Video by DETROIT LIVES!read on…

VIDEO: Steve & Dorota Coy

DETROIT LIVES! Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Detroit-based artists Steve and Dorota Coy, who recently appeared in the high-profile documentary Detropia, speak about their work as Hygienic Dress League and what they hope will be its impact on the community. Gas masks not included. Video by DETROIT LIVES!read on…

VIDEO: Chandra Moore-Banks

DETROIT LIVES! Wednesday, September 26, 2012
coG Studio is an architectural design firm that focuses on youth-oriented spaces where kids can live, learn and play. coG Director Chandra Moore-Banks makes sure kids aren't forgotten when it comes to placemaking. Video by DETROIT LIVES!read on…

VIDEO: Scott Alan Davis

DETROIT LIVES! Wednesday, September 12, 2012
The North End is one of Detroit's outer-lying communities that was hard-hit by decades of disinvestment, but the Vanguard CDC works hard every day towards education development, community development and economic development in the North End community so that everyone has "an on-ramp" to join "the prosperity highway." Video by DETROIT LIVES!read on…

VIDEO: Soh Suzuki

DETROIT LIVES! Thursday, August 23, 2012
How do you promote a greater understanding of Detroit's shared history and empower the next generation of changemakers? Soh Suzuki of Detroit Asian Youth (DAY) Project shares his work to engage young people through community projects. Video by DETROIT LIVES! read on…

VIDEO: Steve Nawara

DETROIT LIVES! Monday, July 16, 2012
Have a big idea? Take baby steps, says Steve Nawara of Beehive Recording Company. In this video, Steve shares how Beehive is holding a magnifying glass to Detroit's local music culture by offering free recording and downloads for emerging artists. Video by DETROIT LIVES! read on…
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