Aug 12, 2026
Jasper Gary-Bey is the Founder of King-Dome Builders, an Ypsilanti-based organization that hosts community bicycle rides every second Sunday; serves dinner each month for the community with Second Baptist Church and Ypsilanti Seventh-day Adventist Church; and...
Aug 12, 2026
Takunia “T.C.” Collins is a farmer, lifelong Willow Run resident, community leader, and the Founder and Executive Director of Willow Run Acres, an Ypsilanti-based nonprofit that transforms vacant lots into gardens and hosts gardening classes for all ages. Willow Run...
Aug 12, 2026
Shalina Nicohl Rankin is an herbalist, reflexologist, natural health advocate, and the Founder of Fiery Maple Wholistic Healing, Inc.—a holistic herbal medicine practice that serves the Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor areas. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sports Management...
Aug 12, 2026
Ariel O’Jibway moved thirteen times by the time she was eleven–but has lived in either Michigan or Vermont for most of her life. She moved to Ypsilanti in 2016, with her partner in everything and of 17 years, Paul Stewart, and made a home with their co-op friends on...
Aug 12, 2026
Jasmine Rogan is a gardener, Lead Preschool Teacher at Ypsilanti Community Schools, loving wife, and the mother of two kiddos and a cat named Tom. Originally born and raised in Detroit, Jasmine moved to Ypsilanti to attend Washtenaw Community College and the...
