FORTUNE

The Brief:

  • Between 2007 and 2010, I was a Fortune/Fortune.com/CNNMoney.com contributing editor. For much of that period I focused on Detroit’s entrepreneurs and philanthropists, as part of Time Inc.’s company-wide project in the Motor City.

  • Where entrepreneurs need nerves of steel

    In a Midwestern city, entrepreneurs tap family networks to realize dreams, against great odds.

  • Meet the philanthropist working to save Detroit's schools

    Here’s how the head of a half-billion-dollar fund targeted money to save Detroit’s public schools.