ID: Angelic Boyer, Council Member Fred Durhal, III, Deputy Mayor Todd Bettison, ODA Director Christopher Samp, CRIO Director Anthony Zander and Shanta' Favors, Ms. Wheelchair Michigan, after the raising of the Disability Pride flag.
The Office of Disability Affairs (part of the Civil Rights, Inclusion & Opportunity (CRIO) Department) today partnered with the City’s Employee Engagement team to host the city’s first Disability Pride Celebration and Flag Raising. The theme of the event, “Connecting Communities and Strengthening Partnerships,” drew many people from the Disability Community including representatives from Detroit‘s Department of Transportation, Detroit Health Department and a host of community partners such as Adaptive MoGo, Arc Detroit, Association for Advancement of Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Detroit Black Deaf Advocates, Detroit Disability Power, Wayne Mobile Health Unit and many others.
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