About Derek Turner

Derek Turner graduated from Columbia in May 2012 with a degree in Political Science and Anthropology. Now the Director of Business Development at Grand Circus as a Venture for America Fellow, he is living and working in Downtown Detroit to see what entrepreneurship can do for the city, simultaneously navigating a bankrupt city with a new wife and a new way of relating faith to his surroundings.

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Prodigal City

The bankruptcy of Detroit is a consequence of multi-faceted social problems... read more

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