Global Detroit Blog
Read below for updates to Global Detroit and immigrant news affecting Metro-Detroit.
October 1, 2019OpTech’s Ronia Kruse Receives Global Detroit’s Corporate Impact Award
“Innovation cannot exist without the right talent,” says Ronia Kruse, president and CEO of OpTech, an award-winning talent solutions and technology firm specializing in enhancing Fortune 1000 and government organizations by providing innovative tailored solutions and elite industry talent. Early in OpTech’s infancy as a [...]
September 25, 2019Global Detroit’s 2019 Young Professional
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBkj-_IA7iQ Arjun Venugopal moved to the United States from his native India in 2015. Like many international students, Arjun, a Masters in Manufacturing Engineering graduate from Wayne State University, was experiencing what most of us would consider a frustrating employment search. “I had secured interviews [...]
September 17, 2019Bank of America’s Tiffany Douglas Receives Global Detroit’s 2019 Corporate Leadership Award
What would you like the power to do? That is Bank of America’s rallying call and Tiffany Douglas and her colleagues take it seriously. As the company’s Senior Vice President and Market Executive for Michigan, Tiffany supports the Bank’s lines of business to deliver and [...]
September 9, 2019Pam Lavers Receives Global Detroit’s 2019 Champion Award
A passionate public servant with more than 23 years of service, newly retired Deputy County Executive of Macomb County Pam Lavers always wanted to work for the government. Hand-picked in 2011 by newly elected Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel, Lavers helped to set up his [...]
August 23, 2019Elias Gutierrez Receives Global Detroit’s 2019 Community Entrepreneur Award
Situated in an office on the second floor of an old bank building that dates back to the 1930s are the headquarters of Latino Press, the newspaper Elias Gutierrez launched in 1993. “I came from Chile in 1991. Just like everyone else, I was looking [...]
August 9, 2019A Message from Our Executive Director
The tragedies last weekend in El Paso and Dayton go beyond simply our debates about immigration or politics. They are so horrific that they beg us to question who we are as a people and our own humanity. As an organization devoted to building inclusive [...]
July 20, 2019Global Talent Accelerator
On July 15, we celebrated the graduation of 11 international students from our inaugural Global Talent Accelerator. These hardworking students, with degrees (or soon-to-be completed degrees) from bachelor’s to Ph.D, spent the summer attending interactive workshops on pitching, resume writing, networking, business etiquette and other [...]
May 21, 2019Communicating and Building Trust Through Art
Over several weeks last fall, more than 30 women and girls gathered around red onion skins, dried eucalyptus leaves and buckets of indigo dye to create beautifully printed silk scarves and vibrant blue canvas tote bags. The collective art project, called Common Bond, was hosted in [...]
May 17, 2019Help Us Build Detroit’s Inclusive Future.
Rezaul Karim came to America to create a better life for his family–twice. Although he worked as a bank officer in Bangladesh, he knew there were more opportunities for his four young daughters in the U.S. So he moved his family to New York and [...]
April 30, 2019Be A part of Detroit’s Inclusive Future!
When Mayra Torres received a letter from her new landlord, it was her first notice that her house had been sold. Worried, she reached out to Raquel Garcia. As Global Detroit’s director of housing and special projects, Raquel serves as an invaluable resource to her [...]
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Global Detroit is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation that revitalizes Michigan’s economy by pursuing strategies that strengthen Detroit’s connections to the world to make the region more attractive and welcoming to immigrants, internationals, and foreign trade and investment as a means to produce jobs and regional economic growth.