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    THE WISDOM OF DETROIT

    Feb 18, 2020 4 minutes
    as told to Ashlea Halpern
    PHOTOGRAPHS BY
    CYDNI ELLEDGE

    WAS BORN in Southfield, Michigan, just outside Detroit, but grew up 20 minutes from Kalamazoo, surrounded by woods. I left for college at 18 and didn’t plan on coming back to the Midwest. I lived in Senegal, Malawi, and South Africa, and up and down the East Coast, before moving to Detroit in 2013—right as the city was filing for municipal bankruptcy. I had just finished law school at Yale and was looking for where the most visionary thinking was happening about the future of cities. I thought I might land in Brooklyn or Oakland

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