FORCE (Faithfully Organizing Resources for Community Empowerment) is a culmination of interfaith, grassroots and public sector leaders committed to having hard conversations about complex community issues, pushing boundaries and generating creative justice oriented solutions. We leverage media and culturally relevant strategies to connect people least likely to be engaged to civic infrastructures.

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Our team is composed of passionate community thought leaders dedicated to empowering community members.

Alia Harvey Quinn

Director

Alia Harvey-Quinn is the Director for Force. Born and raised in Detroit, Mrs. Harvey-Quinn began working in the nonprofit sector as a volunteer performance poet, visual artist and instructor. Moving from creating art about community issues to working to positively impact those issues, Alia dedicated 14 years to the nonprofit field, working and volunteering in many schools, community centers and churches across Metropolitan Detroit.

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Lottie V. Spady

Communications Director

Lottie V. Spady is the Communications Director for Force Detroit. Lottie has been a Detroit activist for the past fifteen years developing programs, facilitating workshops, classes, and trainings, and working specifically with children, teens and adults to promote, educate, and empower communities at the intersections of media justice, food justice, environmental justice, community health, and civic engagement.

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Amanda Hill

Community Engagement Coordinator

Amanda Hill is the Community Engagement Coordinator for FORCE Detroit. She is a Detroit west-sider and community organizer passionate about social, racial, and economic justice. Amanda began organizing as a founding member BYP100 Detroit, an organization working for the liberation of ALL Black people. She is presently one of the chapter co-chairs. She loves to read and collaboratively build toward a vision of dignity, safety and wellness for marginalized people.

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Advisory Council

We believe in shared accountability. Therefore our advisors consist of trusted community leaders with a track record of activism and empowerment.

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Faith In Action National Network

Faith In Action (Formerly PICO) is a national network of faith-based community organizations working to create innovative solutions to problems facing urban, suburban and rural communities. Since 1972 Faith In Action has successfully worked to increase access to health care, improve public schools, make neighborhoods safer, build affordable housing, redevelop communities and revitalize democracy.

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Live Free

(Faith In Action National Campaign)

As people of faith, we know that our country’s legacy of racism, violence, and economic exploitation runs counter to what is prescribed in our most sacred texts. Sadly, the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the world is also one of the most violent and punitive. With almost 12,000 gun murders a year (more than the annual death toll of U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War) and the highest incarceration rate in the world, we find ourselves in a moral crisis—a crisis which disproportionately impacts the poor and communities of color. Learn More

Link Up With Detroit Force

In order to create community led solutions to violence in our community, we need the energy of the community. Please join us in creating a force for justice!

We are committed to connecting impacted people to opportunities to create justice oriented policies and solutions. Feel free to get in touch with us to learn more about our efforts and how you can get involved.

Phone: 313.600.8877

E-mail: ForceDetroit@gmail.com

Business Hours: 9:00 am – 6:00pm M-F

The Black Agenda Tour kicked off in Detroit!

by Lottie | May 30, 2019 | Events, Narratives, Stop The Violence | 0 Comments

The Black Agenda Conference is a multi-city event designed to gather communities together and learn of examples and strategies to: Build our communityBuy Back our BlocksEducate our ChildrenLeverage our Political Power &Shift the Black Narrative The conference will...

Who’s Who in the Green Light?

by Lottie | May 24, 2019 | Narratives, Stop The Violence | 0 Comments

Looking at the local online Detroit News May 20, 2019, I came across this article: “Police say video shows 2 people of interest in fatal Detroit shooting” (there was no reporter noted.) In reading this article it says "One...

Why Does This Matter To You?

by Lottie | April 5, 2019 | Community Healing, Stop The Violence | 0 Comments

Sooner or later we are all impacted and affected by the culture of violence that is thriving today. #LIVEFREE #LIVEFREEDETROIT #TwoDetroits

You Can Stop This!

by Lottie | April 5, 2019 | Community Healing, Stop The Violence | 0 Comments

Do you want to work together to create healthy, safer communities for all? Do you want to work together to create healthy, safer communities for all? CALL TO ACTION! #LIVEFREE #LIVEFREEDETROIT #TwoDetroits #ForcedCriminalization .

Call To Action

by Lottie | April 5, 2019 | Community Healing, Stop The Violence | 0 Comments

Can we imagine a world where we invest in community rather than big business? We need programs, practices and policies that prevent violence before it occurs instead of spending valuable resources on symptoms of the problem....

LIVE FREE DETROIT REFLECTIONS CONVERSATION PART 4

by Lottie | April 4, 2019 | Community Healing, Narratives | 0 Comments

Reflection Conversation with Force's Director Alia Harvey-Quinn and Pastor Maurice Hardrick of the Live In Peace Movement. Part 4 in a 4 part conversation series. What are the gaps with ally organizing? It can't be underestimated how much insight and drive to change...

LIVE FREE DETROIT REFLECTIONS CONVERSATION PART 3

by Lottie | April 4, 2019 | Community Healing, Narratives | 0 Comments

Reflection Conversation with Force's Director Alia Harvey-Quinn and Pastor Maurice Hardrick of the Live In Peace Movement | Part 3 Force Detroit surveyed 610 Detroiters about how they are experiencing violence. How does violence impact how you move about the city?What...

Practical Tools for Community Wellness (Medicine and the Media – Part 1)

by Lottie | March 29, 2019 | Community Healing | 0 Comments

The trauma of being directly impacted and doing criminal justice reform, anti-violence and anti-criminalization work all day takes its toll physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Long term exposure to trauma affects our family, social life and poses major health challenges. By creating healing and supportive experiences and opportunities, we lead change that emphasizes our ability to heal ourselves, our teams, and our communities.

Why Does This Matter to You?

by Lottie | February 18, 2019 | stuff | 0 Comments

Can we imagine a world where we invest in community rather than big business? We need programs, practices and policies that prevent violence before it occurs instead of spending valuable resources on symptoms of the problem. Violence is a symptom of a cultural virus....

Live Free Detroit Reflections Conversation PART 2

by Lottie | February 14, 2019 | stuff | 0 Comments

Live Free Detroit Reflections Conversation With Alia Harvey-Quinn and Pastor Maurice Hartwick | Part 2 Two of Detroit’s grassroots leaders speak about the culture of violence in Detroit, issues of forced criminalization and structural violence. How do we...

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