The Common Wealth Podcast tackles economic development challenges and identifies tools used to empower disinvested communities in Detroit and beyond. We examine the central question. Can community economic development meaningfully advance economic, racial, and social justice?
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The Common Wealth Podcast tackles economic development challenges and identifies tools used to empower disinvested communities in Detroit and beyond. We examine the central question. Can community economic development meaningfully advance economic, racial, and social justice?
University of Michigan Regent Mark Bernstein and The Common Wealth Podcast Host and UM Law Professor Dana Thompson Take on Community Development in Detroit
The Common Wealth
31 minutes 55 seconds
7 months ago
University of Michigan Regent Mark Bernstein and The Common Wealth Podcast Host and UM Law Professor Dana Thompson Take on Community Development in Detroit
In the inaugural episode of the anticipated podcast on the nexus between higher education and community economic development, called The Common Wealth, University of Michigan Law Professor Dana Thompson invites University of Michigan Regent Mark Bernstein as her first guest. The two discuss Bernstein's legal and professional career and the University of Michigan's impact on the City of Detroit as well as it's continued engagement with the state's largest city. Professor Thompson, who is the founding director of the Zell Entrepreneurship Clinic as well as the director of the Community Enterprise Clinic also discusses with Regent Bernstein the University of Michigan's Center for Innovation in Detroit, which is being billed as a world-class research, education, and entrepreneurship center designed to stimulate economic development in Michigan's urban core.
The Common Wealth
The Common Wealth Podcast tackles economic development challenges and identifies tools used to empower disinvested communities in Detroit and beyond. We examine the central question. Can community economic development meaningfully advance economic, racial, and social justice?