Wright and her grass-root’s nonprofit, which S.A.Y. He looked over at Wright, who was standing to his right in the classroom at the school, where food was being distributed to the needy one floor below outside its doors. “How could I become a district superintendent when my mom didn’t graduate from high school and I didn’t know who my father was? A big part of why I went into education was because of Ms. “Each one of us has a story to tell,” Coleman told Wright’s 22 teen leaders assembled that day at West Side Academy.
Earlier this year, he was a finalist for Detroit’s superintendent position Coleman is also working on his doctorate. Today, Coleman, 45, is superintendent of the River Rouge school district. That woman was Erica Wright, who founded the Westside Cultural and Athletic Club in 1976. Nearly 40 years ago, Coleman was a 6-year-old boy on Detroit’s west side - “growing up around heroin addicts,” he said - when he found solace, support and love in the form of a woman who had created a youth program out of her home to keep children on the straight and narrow. Detroit was visiting Wright’s summer session for a lunchtime pizza party at her Westside Cultural & Athletic Club nonprofit on a recent Thursday when Derrick R.
Erica Wright’s eyes were rimmed with tears as he spoke.
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