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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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.
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.
Brandon Dandridge
Organizing Fellow
Brandon Dandridge is the lead Outreach community organizer for force Detroit. Born and raised on the North Eastside of the city, over the years he has developed a tribal sense for community which naturally shows up in his passion for organizing. Brandon is new to the formal organizing scene, yet has already emerged himself immensely as an organizer by utilizing his directly impacted roots as a catalyst to influence others who also too have been directly impacted to exhibit energy and action around live free issues.
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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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
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