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Advisory Task Force
The Mayor’s Advisory Task Force: A 50-member body representing residents, city council, community groups, faith-based and non-profit organizations, and the business and foundation communities to work with the planning team.
| Troy | Adam | Design Engineer | Henniges Automotive |
| Larry | Alexander | President & CEO | Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau |
| Birdies | Anderson | Founder | After School Connect & Promote Your Business |
| Erick | Barnes | Professor | University of Detroit Mercy |
| Rufus | Bartell | Owner | Simply Casual Clothing Store |
| Russ | Bellant | President | Helco Block Club |
| Delores | Bennett | Founder/CEO | Northend Improvement Council |
| Fay | Beydoun | Executive Director | American Arab Chamber of Commerce |
| Austin | Black II | President | City Living Detroit |
| Robert | Bland | Retired | Councilwoman JoAnne Watson |
| David | Blaszkiewicz | President | Downtown Detroit Partnership |
| Paul | Bridgewater | President & CEO | Detroit Area Agency on Aging |
| Phillip | Cooley | Owner | Slow’s BarBQ |
| Edward | Egnatios | Program Officer | Skillman Foundation |
| Charles | Ellis III | Pastor | Greater Grace Temple |
| Tom | Goddeeris | Executive Director | Grandmont Rosedale Development Corporation |
| Anika | Goss Foster | Vice-President | Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) NATIONAL |
| Lydia | Guiterriez | President | Hacienda Mexican Products |
| Ponsella | Hardaway | Executive Director | Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength (MOSES) |
| Adam | Hollier | Chief of Staff | State Representative Bert Johnson |
| Michelle | Jackson | President | Green Explosion |
| Andre | Johnson | President/CEO | Detroit Recovery Project |
| William | Jones | President & CEO | Focus: HOPE |
| Christine | Kageff | Vice President | JP Morgan Chase Foundation |
| Luther | Keith | Executive Director | ARISE Detroit |
| Renee | Kent | Vice President | PNC Bank, Community Development |
| Sharon | Madison Polk | Owner | Madison Madison International |
| Conrad | Mallet, Jr. | President & CEO | DMC- Sinai Grace Hospital |
| Martin | Manna | Executive Director | Chaldean American Chamber of Commerce |
| Patricia | McGants | Founder/CEO | You Can International |
| Faye | Nelson | President/CEO | Detroit Riverfront Conservancy |
| Steve | Ogden | Executive Director | Next Detroit Neighborhood Initiative |
| Dan | Ringo | Recording Corrspondence Secretary | International Union of Engineers, Local 324 |
| Shenay | Shumake | Executive Pastor | Solid Rock Assembly of God |
| Christianne | Sims | Chief Engagement Officer | Urbanize (D) |
| Shirley | Stancato | President & CEO | New Detroit, Inc. |
| Kim | Tandy | President | Sherwood Forest Neighborhood Association |
| Paul | Taylor | Executive Director | Inner City Sub Center |
| Alice | Thompson | CEO | Black Family Development |
| James | Thrower, Sr. | CEO | JAMJOMAR |
| Kevin | Tolbert | International Rep | United Auto Workers (UAW) |
| Khary | Turner | President | Black Botton Collective |
| Jerome | Warfield, Sr | President | Brightmoor Alliance Inc |
| Kathleen | Wendler | Executive Director | Southwest Detroit Business Association |
| Heaster | Wheeler | Assistant CEO | Wayne County Executive’s Office |
| Alan Scott | White | President/CEO | WISE Commerical Real Estate |
| Donele | Wilkins | Executive Director | Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice |
| Charles | Williams, II | Pastor | Historic King Solomon Baptist Church |
| Thomas | Woiwode | Director, Greenways Initiative | Community Foundation of Southeast Michigan |
| Malik | Yakini | Chairman | Detroit Black Food Security Network |
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