About

BUILDING UP OUR CITY’S PEOPLE

There are opportunities for racial equity and healing all around us. We just need to know how to take advantage of them.

In every injustice and inequality there is suffering, but there also is the chance to bring people together to make Detroit stronger.

I’m Ingrid White, and I’ve been fighting for the rights of people in our city for decades. Now I’m offering my skills and experience to help you do the same.

Becoming An Activist

I grew-up in a small working-class town in Massachusetts and attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1969. As a college student near the end of the Civil Rights Movement, I spent my summers working toward the ideals of the Movement by conducting voter registration campaigns in Indianola, Mississippi; working with the Institute for the Black World and a prison abolition coalition in Atlanta, Georgia; and going door-to-door in Brooklyn, New York to speak with residents, assess their social needs, and get them the appropriate services.

In 1973, I was the proud second graduate of the W.E.B DuBois Department of Afro-American Studies—the first degree-granting Black Studies Department in the country—coursework that inspired my commitment to helping the people who were most affected by racism and oppression.

Later, I would go on to earn my MBA with a concentration in human resource management and marketing, a degree that would offer the opportunity to lead social change in the business world as well.

Building Up Detroit

As an adult, I settled in The Motor City where I came to admire the diversity of Detroiters—and your political awareness, desire to organize, and ability to empower those around you to surmount any obstacle. Here in Detroit, I fell in love with your passion for progress and I’ve never looked back.

Over the years, that passion has driven me to take up the fight for justice and equality in many forms, from becoming a probation officer in the courtroom of Judge Justin Ravitz, to serving as community liaison for Councilman Ken Cockrel,Sr., to co-managing Sheila Cockrel’s campaign for City Council, to implementing Detroit’s ten-year, $100 million Empowerment Zone program. No job was too big or too small as long as it meant I was working to improve the lives of the people of Detroit.

And now I want to help you do the same.

How Can I Help?

Whether you’re a politician or organization driving change at the city level, an educational institution serving your community, or simply a group of Detroiters who see an opportunity to build up your community to empower and mobilize the people of our city, I’m here to help. I want to help.

So are you ready?

Are you ready to take your organization or program to the next level?

And are you ready to work with someone who’s been there, someone whose energy and dedication will spread throughout your community on behalf of your goals?

My journey has given me the skills and experience to help you continue to build up our city’s people. You can see a more detailed list of my skills and experience here, or just ask me!

Contact me today so we can work together to build up our city and our city’s people.