Last week, Authentically Detroit took over the Mackinac Policy Conference!

Donna and Orlando conducted interviews on-site at the conference with some of the state and city’s most influential power brokers. This series is broken up into three parts and as always features candid conversations centering residents’ perspectives on the policies that most impact us!

Part One:

Garland Gilchrist, Lt. Gov., State of Michigan

Leona Holly Medley, Joe Louis Greenway

Angelique Power and Skillman Foundation Youth, Skillman Foundation

Part Two:

Kat Stafford, Associated Press

Nicole Wells Stallworth, Children’s Center

Nancy Kaffer, Detroit Free Press

Part Three:

Portia Roberson, Focus: HOPE

Khalilah Burt Gatson, Song Foundation

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, Wayne County Health Department

Kim Trent, Michigan Department of Labor and Opportunity

Pierre Batton, JP Morgan Chase

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