Commissioner Qianna Decker. Her career ambitions led her to 15 years in banking, where she developed her passion for creating financial literacy for all. In , she shifted her sights to the mortgage industry and helping people find pathways to home ownership. In addition, her entrepreneurial spirit led her to start a successful home rental business in and acquired her real estate license in Qianna is an active member of the Kalamazoo County Land Bank board, where she develops ongoing seminars that bring local businesses together to educate the community.
She serves on the Affirmative Action committee, which addresses disparities in homeownership for people of color and low-income residents. Additionally, she is a member of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee, which aims to shift community engagement from being simply inclusive to being truly empowering.
In this role, she provides platforms and initiatives for community leadership, develops approaches to real estate transactions, and creates opportunities for neighbors and residents to get involved. Qianna is also dedicated to family. She and her husband, Douglas, live in the Westnedge Hill area with their son and daughter, who are enrolled in Kalamazoo Public Schools. You can find them on the soccer field or watching little league games, cheering on their kids. She says her mother instilled in her the quality of working hard and for what you believe in — and she intends to do that for our city.
During her career, she spent time as assistant basketball coach, assistant softball coach and associate chaplain. Jeanne earned her B. She went on to earn her M. In , Kalamazoo College awarded her the prestigious Lux Esto Award of Excellence, which honors an employee who has served Kalamazoo College for 26 or more years for a superlative record of stewardship and innovation. If you want to see better mental health and transparency, I want to work with you," said Stanley.
It is a critical time here in Kalamazoo. Actions Facebook Tweet Email. Kalamazoo mayoral candidates discuss top priorities ahead of November's election. By: Lauren Kummer. Incumbent Mayor David Anderson will be running for a second term. He said the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board and that he has asked the board to adopt some hybrid elements, such as allowing online attendance, but the changes have not been made. Stanley asked about the open seats on the Foundation for Excellence board.
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All rights reserved About Us. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. I did a program like this in high school growing up, we built an entire house from the ground up, it was called residential construction; we could work with the schools to do this here.
We could work as a community to rebuild our infrastructure, including housing. The city is working so hard to Gentrify the neighborhood I live in now, people are forced into sad circumstances, and their life gets worse, essentially predictably, drug addiction, shootings, divorce and suicides. Well, you can see the rows of housing being torn down, and replaced with new housing that leads into downtown, there is clearly a plan, to expunge the city, of broken people.
Rather than help them get glued back together. Feel free to read about kintsugi if you wanna dive into the philosophy of brokenness. Do you think the city should be more transparent with citizens? If so, in what way? I agree with him, and I feel the lack of trust in this city.
COULD this be used in positive ways, sure. Will it be I have no idea. You can obviously donate whenever, that button works, but not show up.
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