Five years ago, Stephanie Steinberg created the ultimate writers group. The University of Michigan alumna, former editor in chief of the Michigan Daily and journalist for US News and World Report, CNN, the Boston Globe, USA Today and The Detroit News, had been writing about entrepreneurs and decided to become one herself. She launched the Detroit Writing Room in 2019.

“Through the Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project’s summer internship program, Impact Studio for Local Business, I am proud to say that I am now working with the small businesses that I used to drive past, helping entrepreneurs like my grandfather to make key changes to their businesses and support Detroit neighborhoods.”

~ Samuel Ibri

Image-based artist Ricky Weaver joins the Stamps School of Art & Design faculty. Weaver’s object-oriented creative practice allows space for theorizing images in a way that extends beyond the photograph. Her practice interrogates how the body, hymn, scripture, and the everyday appear as images and how that image functions as both archives and vessels.

Alumna Stephanie Steinberg launched Coaching Detroit Forward, the nonprofit arm of the Detroit Writing Room, to share writing and photography skills with students in Detroit. Professional coaches share tips and student work is published in Perspectives magazine.

a new report led by the University of Michigan School of Public Health details the first-hand experiences of nearly 1,300 parents in rural and urban Michigan; their challenges signing up for food assistance, the stress and shame of having to ask for help with food, and parents’ deep commitment to making sure their children are fed—even if it means that they go without.

As the senior medical producer for WDIV-TV in Detroit, alumna Sarah Mayberry utilizes the latest in medical research and healthcare information to educate and inform her viewers. That is her personally crafted job description.

The Detroit Metro Area Communities Study asks 1,100 Detroiters about their reasons for not planning to vote. The survey analyzes who these unlikely voters are, measures what issues they care about, and explores whether there is anything that Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump, or anyone else can do to bring them back to the polls.

It is 1963. Detroit is bidding to host the 1968 Olympic Games and a new energy is sweeping through Detroit’s Civil Rights Movement. This is the story of their collision.

Seventy-five young people aged 15-25 met with recruiters from educational institutions, non-profits, and local companies in a glass-walled gallery overlooking the Detroit River. The event was hosted at the riverfront dock facility of the Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority in partnership with the University of Michigan’s Detroit River Story Lab, an interdisciplinary initiative centered on community connections to the Detroit River.