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BOARD MEMBER MISHA STALLWORTH

Detroit, MI School Board

Service:
City Year

Misha is a City Year alumna and member of the Detroit School Board who has spent the last 12 years advocating for positive youth development. She co-founded a women’s empowerment group called Rosie’s--after Rosie the Riveter--in high school that provided near-peer mentorship of middle school girls, and worked for the Gary Comer Youth Center while studying at the University of Chicago. Misha also taught creative writing to 2nd graders in Chicago.

While serving in Los Angeles United School District classrooms as a City Year Corps member, Misha looked for solutions to underperforming educational system through her work as an after school programmer and evaluation coordinator. Due to her commitment to urban social work, she chose to pursue her Master’s through the Community Based Initiatives Scholarship Program at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. As the Youth Coordinator for the Cody Rouge Community Action Alliance, Misha began to apply solutions while also emphasizing the importance of youth participating in their own solution development. She has always fought for programs and services that develop the whole child—including the child’s love for learning and their social/emotional growth.