MCRC Education Equity in Michigan Report
This division supports the state ADA Coordinator in carrying out the duties outlined in Executive Order 2004-31.
CEED seeks to engage a broad range of stakeholders to achieve long-term and sustainable outcomes to complex problems. We collaborate with community organizations; churches; non-profit organizations; and city, county, state and federal government entities to address issues affecting the well-being of community members. Engaging in a collaborative manner is a powerful tool used to bring about environmental, social and behavioral changes that will improve the health of the community and its members.
The mission of the Division on Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing is to affirm the indisputable rights of deaf, deafblind and hard of hearing residents to effective communication. The Division provides advocacy, interpreter testing, technical assistance, and interpreting services for the Governor, legislature, and state departments.
The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Office develops educational training session and resources designed to increase awareness of implicit bias and its impact in the work we do and the people we serve.
CEED’s educational efforts provide customers with information and training about civil rights laws and enhances the awareness of civil rights issues. It provides the public with a resource for the proactive prevention of discrimination within a community.
The primary mission of the MCRC and MDCR is to investigate complaints of discrimination in employment, education, housing, public accommodation, law enforcement and public service.
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The Michigan Civil Rights Commission (MCRC) held a regularly scheduled meeting virtually on Monday, January 25 where they welcomed new commissioners and honored two Michigan civil rights leaders who recently passed away.
The Commission unanimously passed two resolutions honoring the lives of Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon, a former Chair of the Commission who served from 1984 to 1991, and Judge Dalton Roberson, Sr., a renowned Detroit judge and father to current commissioner Portia L. Roberson, whose life was committed to justice and public service.
Three new commissioners were also sworn in at the meeting - Anupama Kosaraju of Franklin, Gloria E. Lara of Grand Rapids, and Richard Corriveau of Northville.
Kosaraju is currently a community organizer working to increase civic engagement in the South Asian Community in Michigan and nationally. She is retired from Harman Industries International where she worked as a global procurement controller. Her term expires 12/31/22.
Lara is the executive director of the Lakeshore Ethnic Diversity Alliance. She previously served as the chief executive officer of the Michigan Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Girl Scouts of Michigan Shore to Shore. Her term expires 12/31/22.
Corriveau is a trial attorney and the president of Richard J. Corriveau Law, P.C. He is a veteran of the United States military and previously worked as a public school teacher and an adjunct professor. Although Corriveau was sworn in for a term that expires 12/31/24, the Senate, in a process known as advice and consent, rejected his appointment to the Commission on January 27. The advice and consent process gives 60 days to the Senate to reject certain appointments by majority vote.
The rejection of Corriveau, along with a number of other appointees made recently by Governor Whitmer, is linked to the Republican-led Senate’s disapproval of her Coronavirus response. His rejection should not be seen as a reflection on him, his qualifications or his selection.
The advice and consent process, according to Senate Advice and Consent Committee Chair Aric Nesbitt, R-Lawton, was a “tool” to pressure her into working with the legislature regarding future executive orders surrounding public health in the state.
