About

Our key to success? Collective power and collaborative work.

Board of Directors

Our Board of Directors includes business, government, community and resident leaders that are driven to catalyze sustainable change on Detroit's Eastside.

Business

Kathleen Colin
Oppenheimer & Co.

Rachel Cook
HR Committee Chair
Fifth Third Bank

Mark Kent Jones
DTE Energy

Sonya Dotson
Vice Chair
PVS Chemicals

Hank Hubbard
One Detroit Credit Union

Robert Young
Treasurer
Henry Ford Health System

Institutional

Darnell Adams
Invest Detroit

Graig Donnelly
Wayne State University
Tech Town Detroit

Patrick O. Lindsey
Wayne State University

Mark Owens
Samaritan Center

Michael Rafferty
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

Edgar L. Vann, III
Wayne County Community College District

Charles Walker
Secretary
Fair Food Network

Donele Wilkins
Green Door Initiative

Residential

Deborah Calvin
Parkside Residential

Jonathan Demers
MACC Development

Tammara Howard
Gratiot Woods Coalition

Barbara Martin
Crane Street Block Club

Miguel Pope
Mt. Elliot Business & Community Association

Jacqueline Richmond
Chair
Creekside CDC

Eboni Taylor
Chandler Park Neighborhood Association

Margie Young
Executive Committee Member at Large

Partnerships

Our generous, dynamic partners provide ECN with the funding and resources necessary to continue transforming lower east side communities.