A recent report from the Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley once again designated Detroit as one of the most racially segregated regions in the country. It is not just segregation of race. Spatial-structural racism is the hyper segregation of race, wealth and opportunity. This segregation lies at the root of Detroit’s multiple crises […]
Author Archives: Monica Lewis-Patrick and Peter Hammer
Monica Lewis-Patrick, President & CEO, We the People of Detroit
Monica Lewis-Patrick is an educator, entrepreneur, and human rights activist/advocate. Along with the other four founders of We the People of Detroit (WPD), she, with the leadership of volunteers and community experts, placed herself and WPD at the forefront of the water justice struggle in Michigan, across the country and globally. Lewis-Patrick is known throughout the environmental justice community as The Water Warrior. She is actively engaged in the struggle for access to safe, affordable water for all under-resourced communities.
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Peter Hammer, Director of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights; Professor of Law; A. Alfred Taubman Endowed Chair
Peter J. Hammer was has taught at Wayne Law since 2003 and is the director of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights at Wayne Law. The Keith Center is dedicated to promoting the educational, economic and political empowerment of under-represented communities in urban areas and to ensuring that the phrase "equal justice under law" applies to all members of society. Hammer was instrumental in editing and compiling Judge Damon J. Keith’s biography, Crusader for Justice: Federal Judge Damon J. Keith (2013). He has become a leading voice on the economic and social issues impacting the city of Detroit.