Riqueli “Rick” Moreno moved to Detroit from the Dominican Republic in 2003. It was in Detroit that he met his wife, Liz, who had moved from Puerto Rico in 1996 at the age of 13. Together, they decided to turn their love for Caribbean cuisine into a business venture in Detroit’s ethnically diverse District 6.
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Last Friday, Challenge Detroit’s fourth year cohort gave its first presentation of the year. It was also the first ever project that our non-profit organization has worked on with the City of Detroit. For the project, fellows were split up into teams based on the seven districts and sent out to gather stories on small businesses in this expansive city. As you have hopefully […]
Detroit is a prideful place which means this city hasn’t taken lightly to the decades of international ridicule it has received from media, ignorant (see what I mean about not taking it lightly) private citizens, and others.
The international criticism has united Detroiters in ways that people probably never could have imagined back in the late 70s and 80s. Detroit has become […]
In the past few weeks, my team (Amelia Suarez, Geraldine Chi, Mike Kurfess) and I have been traveling all over District 6 in the City of Detroit. The mayor’s office tasked us with giving a voice to the lesser-recognized businesses of the Motor City. These voices and their stories will eventually make up a city-wide directory of […]
In the three years prior to becoming a Challenge Detroit fellow, I was a Peace Corps Volunteer (PCV) in Madagascar. These were some of the best years of my life. I learned a new language and culture, I met my girlfriend and dozens of other incredible people, and I felt like I was genuinely making a difference […]
