Meet Detroit
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The "Formal" Bio
Born in Sand Springs OK, but his family relocated to Los Angeles when he was age 4. Where he spent most of his adult life. After graduation from LA’s John C. Fremont High School with back to back L.A. City Basketball Championships, he was awarded a full scholarship at Loyola University of L.A., He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and a minor in philosophy from what is now Loyola Marymount University. He later became the first and youngest African American Alumni President at LMU where he has remained active through the years.Â
He married his high school sweetheart in his Junior year at LMU. Having gone through Air Force ROTC, he served four years as an Aerospace Munitions Officer with tours in Denver, Montana and his final year in Vietnam. He spent over 20 years as a member of SAG and then SAG/AFTRA where he did commercial acting for such companies as Doritos, AT&T, Travelers insurance, The Marines and Kia. He was a sales manager and sales executive for a large New York insurance company for 15 years. He served as Site Director for the LA Sports Academy, a nonprofit on the campus of Audubon Middle School in Los Angeles for over three years, working with 216, 6th, 7th and 8th graders in a program founded by former Laker great Walt Hazzard to combine academic excellence with the desire to learn to play basketball.Â
After publishing his poetry book “Women & Simple Truths”, he became the progenitor of a series of seminars on “ABC’s of Building a Winning Life”, “Parenting 101”, and “Relationships 101” which he conducted throughout Southern California and twice on Okinawa, Japan. For fourteen years, he taught for LAUSD where he helped hundreds of high school dropout students earn GED’s and diplomas. After retirement from LAUSD, he substitute-taught math, reading and substance abuse avoidance to California parolees for seven years.Â
Along his life journey, he also found time to work with an anti-gang program called Project Gangs in which actual street gang members were featured in a play to depict the downsides of the gang lifestyle. He played the role of the “good cop” in the play “Gangs” for over five years. This program, Project Gangs, founded by Harry Bey, toured high schools throughout L.A. County and received numerous citations and awards from city, county and state officials our efforts at gang abatement.
When, after a 58 year idyllic marriage, the love of his life passed away he decided to return to Los Angeles where he had spent most of his life.
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Building a winning life is what he is really good at: from a successful 23 year life insurance career to a 20 year commercial acting career in SAG/AFTRA to helping hundreds of high dropout kids receive diplomas and GEDs for 14 years, to publishing a highly acclaimed poetry book, to being the progenitor of three seminars on Parenting, Relationships 101 and The ABCs of Building a Winning Life in both the U.S. and Okinawa, Japan, Detroit knows a little about his subjects. Why not benefit from his lifetime of learning for Free!Â
His idyllic 58 year marriage to his high school sweetheart and his life-long personal study of the human condition gives Detroit some authority to share his thoughts on relationships. His realistic and practical thoughts will help you do better with your relationships.
