Understand Detroit: Past, Present and Future

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Understand Detroit: Past, Present and Future will be a concentrated one-day experience that provides participants with “A Day in the D”.  The Detroit Orientation Institute (DOI) and Inside Detroit are again partnering to offer this accessible, convenient and affordable one-day program. 

Highlights of the day-long program will include:

• Opening session at the Madison Building (8:30 am)
• Demographic presentation by Kurt Metzger, director of Data Driven Detroit (D3)
• Lunch at Vince’s Ristorante Italiano in Southwest Detroit
• Panel discussion moderated by WDET program host Craig Fahle
• Wrap-up at COLORS–Detroit and tour the Virgil H. Carr Cultural Arts Center

Inside Detroit signature:

• Gain an insider’s perspective of Detroit’s history, culture, community, and livability
• Bus tours of Downtown, Southwest, Midtown, and Detroit’s near East Side

DOI signature:

• View the DOI film Regional Roots: The Birth and Evolution of Detroit and Its People
• Meet and discuss issues with representatives from foundation, government, development, churches, arts/culture, business, education and media

Tuition is $250 and includes meals and transportation.  (Early bird rate of $200 available until March 16, 2012).  Payment should be received by April 6^th to secure a reservation.

Please register at

For more information visit www.doi.wayne.edu or contact:

Jill Horner, DOI program coordinator, at (313) 577-0171, jmhorner@wayne.edu, or

Jeanette Pierce, Inside Detroit, Executive Director at (313) 962-4590, jpierce@insidedetroit.org