Thank you to all who have already registered for the upcoming MDCR Spotlight on Thursday, July 30th! July’s Spotlight is focusing on voting rights, just in time for the upcoming midterm elections. The in-person forum will be held in Detroit at Fellowship Chapel Banquet and Conference Center at 7707 West Outer Drive.

There is still time to register for this event!

Speakers include:

• Angela Davenport, Executive Director Voting Access for All Coalition
• Mika McAskill, Director of Public Engagement, Michigan Department of State
• David Murray, Executive Office Analyst, Michigan Department of State
• Eric Welsby, Advocacy Director, Detroit Disability Power
• Heaster Wheeler, Former Executive Director, Detroit NAACP

A light dinner will be served at 5:30, with the program set to start at 6 PM.

For those not in the area, we will also be livestreaming this session! If you would like to receive link to tune in via Zoom, please use the registration link and indicate you are planning on attending virtually.

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, either virtually or in-person, please indicate your request in the last question in the registration form, or contact Kimberley Williams at WilliamsK8 [at] michigan.gov.

And as always, please share this information with anyone in your network who is interested in learning more about their voting rights!

Carly Behrendt
Departmental Analyst
Michigan Department of Civil Rights
Community Engagement Division
Capitol Tower Building
110 W. Michigan Ave., Suite 800
Lansing, MI 48933
517-335-5151