{"id":2655,"date":"2019-09-27T11:20:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T15:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2019-09-27T11:20:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T15:20:22","slug":"three-young-alumni-honored-as-metro-detroit-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/2019\/09\/27\/three-young-alumni-honored-as-metro-detroit-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Three young alumni honored as metro Detroit leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2656\" style=\"width: 87px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2656\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2019\/09\/flores.jpg?resize=87%2C119&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"87\" height=\"119\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Flores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Three young Detroit Mercy alumni\u00a0have been included on lists of leaders in metropolitan Detroit who are making a difference.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Michigan Chronicle<\/em> has named Asia Rawls &#8217;18 and Lynita Taylor &#8217;10, &#8217;12 to its 2019 40 Under 40 list of local African-American professionals &#8220;who inspire others through their vision, leadership, exceptional achievements and participation in community service.&#8221; In addition, Mike Flores &#8217;03 was named to <em>Crain&#8217;s Detroit Business<\/em>&#8216; 40 Under 40 list. The honorees on Crain&#8217;s list were chosen for their &#8220;career accomplishments, impact in their field and contributions to the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2657\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2657\" style=\"width: 80px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2657\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2019\/09\/Rawls-Asia-1.png?resize=80%2C108&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"108\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asia Rawls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Flores, 38, is\u00a0president of the board of directors for Affirmations, the Ferndale, Mich.-based center that advocates for LGBT people. Flores is credited with reorganizing the 30-year-old organization and saving it from almost certain closure, according to Crain&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Rawls is director of software education and training at Trumble Inc., a computer service firm located in Farmington Hills, Mich. In her position, Rawls manages the delivery and use of real-time technology and mobile applications, according to the Chronicle. She ran track with Detroit Mercy and works with several charitable ventures in Detroit.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2659\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2659\" style=\"width: 72px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2659\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2019\/09\/Taylor-Lynita-1-1.jpg?resize=72%2C102&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"102\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lynita Taylor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Taylor is the diversity and inclusion program manager for the Mike Ilitch School of Business&#8217; MPREP Scholars, a program tasked with recruiting and retaining a diverse body of undergraduate students and help prepare them for careers in business. Under Taylor&#8217;s leadership, the students in the program attended professional and personal development workshops and 16 of the first cohort of 39 earned internships or leadership opportunities with some of metro Detroit&#8217;s largest businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three young Detroit Mercy alumni\u00a0have been included on lists of leaders in metropolitan Detroit who are making a difference. The Michigan Chronicle has named Asia Rawls &#8217;18 and Lynita Taylor &#8217;10, &#8217;12 to its 2019 40 Under 40 list of local African-American professionals &#8220;who inspire others through their vision, leadership, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2017\/08\/LOGO-D-600x315.jpg?fit=600%2C315&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Kcng-GP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2660,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions\/2660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}