Developing Safe Spaces for Youth in Mobility with Shawn Wilson, President and CEO of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Detroit

The Mobility Table went on the road, visiting the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Detroit to sit down with President and CEO Shawn Wilson to discuss the organization’s work to provide Detroit-area youth pathways to success. Through autonomous racing programs, media production, entrepreneurship and other professional skills, the club builds up skills and pathways to long-term economic mobility.

Alongside his position as president and CEO at the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Detroit, Shawn is the co-founder of Usher’s New Look, a non-profit aimed at developing youth into leaders throughout the world. Shawn also served as president of the Plymouth-Canton Community Schools Board of Education and held an executive role at Ford, where he focused on advancing social and economic mobility in multicultural communities.