Michelle Martinez
Inaugural Director of the Tishman Center
University of Michigan

Michelle Martinez is the inaugural Director of the Tishman Center for Social Justice and Environment at the University of Michigan SEAS. Her work over the last 18 years in Detroit is an effort to galvanize the skills, resources and networks fighting with environmental justice communities through the lens of climate and racial justice. Martinez’s efforts have catalyzed movements by utilizing non-violent direct action, research, media, collective decision-making and creativity to bring anti-racist and equitable processes and outcomes for Detroit.