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Our Leadership

The City Year Detroit Board includes the following dedicated corporate, government, nonprofit, and community leaders:

Daniel Little Ph.D., Chair*
Chancellor
University of Michigan - Dearborn

N. Charles Anderson,Vice Chair*
President/CEO
Urban League of Detroit and Southeastern Michigan

Tim Bannister
President/CEO
Bannister & Co.

Julia Cooney*
Principal
Deloitte Consulting

Larry Givens
President
Blackmond Givens Group, Inc.

Elliott Hall
of Counsel, Government Policy
Dykema Gossett, PLLC

Pancho Hall*
Senior Vice President
T-Mobile USA, Inc.

Mary Beth Halprin*
V.P. Public Relations & Community Affairs
Comcast Michigan Region

Albert Taylor Nelson, Jr.
Attorney at Law
Albert Taylor Nelson, Jr., PLC
Of Counsel
Giarmarco, Mullins and Horton P

David K. Page*
Partner
Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn

Dr. John Popovich, Jr., M.D.
President & CEO
Henry Ford Hospital

Paul Riser Jr.
Founder and President
Legacy Associates Foundation

Ralph R. (Randy) Safford
Safford & Baker, PLLC

Karen Sosnick Schoenberg
Principal
Redico, Inc.

Jennifer Shroeger
(Retired) Former Vice President and Regional Director
UPS

Rick Sperling
Founder/CEO
Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit

Samuel H. Thomas, Jr.
President & CEO
Star Development Corporation

Bishop Edgar Vann
Pastor
Second Ebenezer Baptist Church

Gail Warden, Founding Chair*
President Emeritus
Henry Ford Health System

Rebecca Salminen Witt*
Executive Director
The Greening of Detroit

*Executive Committee  *Executive Committee 

 

Founding Board Members Emeritus

Gail Warden, Chair
Walter C. Watkins, Jr., Co-Chair
Penny Bailer
Marcie Brogan
Joseph J. Buttigieg, III
C. David Campbell
Virgil Carr*
Tarik S. Daoud
Maggie DeSantis
W. Frank Fountain
Alan Frank
Liz Kanter Groskind

Diana Jones
N. Noreen Keating
Mary Kramer
John E. Marshall, III
Heath Meriwether
Reuben Munday
Robert Naftaly
Rex Nelson
Paul Piper, Jr.
Scott Romney
David Smydra
Martha Smydra

*Deceased 

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