(bright music) - For us at Detroit Future City, we are most concerned as to how inclusive the future of work actually is, in particular for black and brown Detroiters.

Most so because they are the furthest behind in education attainment as well as workforce achievement.

So we wanna make sure that as we are all, as Detroit and the region continues to grow and change, that everyone is included in that.

- If we get this right, how is that going to benefit the future for Detroit?

- Well, I mean, you can only imagine, right?

So 78% of Detroiters are of African descent or African American and then another 12% are either Latino or foreign born.

So imagine if we can close those equity gaps for that many Detroiters.

- Yeah.

Yeah, that's a lot.

- Right.

That means that more than half of Detroiters will be able to enter the new workforce, the new industry at a whole different economic level.

That could potentially change the economics for Detroit and the region.

- There is someone in a C-Suite somewhere, if there is someone starting a new business, how do they get involved?

Where do people go?

What kind of things can people do to be proactive in this?

- So I feel like the answers are already there.

I do feel like companies, institutions, systems have to really, the narrative that has to change is that Detroit, we can still change these industries, advance these industries with the current population.

If we change the narrative that we can only populate new industries and growth industries with people who are imported from outside of Detroit, to how do we make sure that our labor force are Detroiters right now?

That's a whole different way of thinking about what our labor force will look like in the future.