Yesterday, I came across an old tweet on timehop from exactly a year ago that read:<\/p>\n
\u201cI have an interview with GM\u2019s innovation team on Thursday HAHAHA wait, what\u2019s innovation?\u201d<\/p>\n
Today, I\u2019ve been with GM for around 9 months and you really can\u2019t make this stuff up. Who knew? Apparently not me. This is fitting, because this week marks a year since I was a wee little non-fellow heading eastbound on I-94 from Ann Arbor to Detroit for the interview trip. I remember seeing the skyline for what felt like the first time (it was at least the 100th<\/sup>) because for some reason, this time it looked\/felt different \u2013 fresh air waving through my windows, I was in Detroit for a purpose.<\/p>\n I wanted to be part of revitalization in a \u201conce great American\u201d city, whatever that meant. I also really wanted a job (for real), and to work with community members and organizations that knew more about issues in Detroit I could read about in a book. I wanted to be a part of positive change, again, whatever that meant \u2013 and I wanted to make an impact.<\/p>\n The past year has certainly been that, impactful, meaningful, and fruitful. I have learned and experienced more than I have words to share, become more innovative than the buzz-word itself can imply, and met some really great people along the way. From Kalamazoo to Ann Arbor to Detroit – a new job, new friends, and new home \u2013 GM and Challenge Detroit, to the Mayor\u2019s Office, the Detroit Public Schools, and the Coalition On Temporary Shelter \u2013<\/p>\n What a long strange trip it\u2019s been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday, I came across an old tweet on timehop from exactly a year ago that read: \u201cI have an interview with GM\u2019s innovation team on Thursday HAHAHA wait, what\u2019s innovation?\u201d Today, I\u2019ve been with GM for around 9 months and you really can\u2019t make this stuff up. Who knew? Apparently not me. This is fitting, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}