Featuring:

Black to the Land Coalition

BIPOC Birders of Michigan

We Fixin’ to Fish

Detroit Outdoors

Detroit Urban Forest School

Huron Clinton Metroparks

Special thanks to Reel Clever Films and Michigan Humanities Council for making this project possible.

Nina Misuraca Ignaczak is an award-winning Metro Detroit-based editor, journalist, and documentary filmmaker. She is the founder, publisher, and editor of Planet Detroit, a digital media startup focused on producing quality climate, health, and environment journalism that holds power accountable, and spotlights solutions. Planet Detroit has received awards and recognition from the Society for Professional Journalists Detroit, the Institute for Nonprofit News, and LION Publishers since its establishment in 2019. Prior to her journalism career, Nina worked in urban planning in local government and nonprofit sectors, holding a Master of Science in Natural Resource Ecology and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.