The
Urban Innovation Exchange is an initiative to inform, engage and advance Detroit's growing innovation movement. Led by
Issue Media Group with
Data Driven Detroit,
The Civic Commons and a coalition of media and community partners, UIX is made possible thanks to funding from the
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
For more information, visit us on
Facebook,
Twitter and
Vimeo. To tell us about an urban innovator in your community, click
here.
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PARTNER NETWORK:
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EDITORIAL TEAM:
Claire Nelson is the director of Urban Innovation Exchange. As a founder of
Open City,
Declare Detroit,
Mind the Gap, and Bureau of Urban Living, she is an advocate for quality of place and civic life. She studied architecture & urbanism at Smith College and Columbia University, and has lived & worked in Chicago, New York, Washington D.C., Detroit and New Orleans. As publisher of Model D in Detroit, she led the monthly Speaker Series and the On the Ground neighborhood reporting initiative, and served on the boards of Hatch Detroit, D:hive and Invest Detroit's Urban Retail Loan Fund. Her work has been featured in
For the Love of Cities and
Lemonade: Detroit.
Nicole Rupersburg is the editor of Urban Innovation Exchange and
Creative Exchange. A bit of a gypsy journalist, she also covers food, travel, arts, culture, and entertainment for local and national media outlets all over the country. The
University of Detroit Mercy grad is best-known in her hometown as "HBIC" of
Eat It Detroit.
Philip Lauri & Steven Oliver are the film production team behind
DETROIT LIVES!, a creative agency that develops engaging multimedia projects that push a new image of the City of Detroit. Their innovative approach includes a combination of social branding, marketing and community engagement. Production credits include
After the Factory and the
DC3 Speakers Bureau. Residents of Woodbridge, Philip & Steven are producing video profiles of urban innovators for UIX.
Jessica McInchak is a researcher and analyst with
Data Driven Detroit, dedicated to providing accessible, high-quality information and analysis to drive informed decision-making. Jessica leads the research for
Urban Innovation Exchange, surveying and interviewing Detroit innovators to gain insights into the networks and resources they are using to start and scale their work. Twitter:
@D3detroit
Matthew Lewis is the managing editor of
Model D and a contributor to
Urban Innovation Exchange. His writings have appeared in A Detroit Anthology (Rust Belt Chic Press), Belle Isle to 8 Mile: An Insider's Guide to Detroit, the Detroit Free Press and MLive. Last year, he worked on the team that developed
NEIdeas, a challenge to reward existing businesses in Detroit for growth. Before that, Matthew worked for the
Detroit Revitalization Fellows Program and as a technology assistant at the Detroit Public Library. He studied urban planning at Wayne State University and English at the University of Michigan. Twitter:
@matthewjlew @modeld @UIXDetroit
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UIX IN THE MEDIA:
"Urban Innovation Exchange Connects Detroit's Social Innovators"
(Huffington Post, March 6, 2012)
"New project highlights Detroit innovators"
(Detroit Free Press, March 6, 2012)
"Partnering for Transformation"
(Model D, March 6, 2012)