Ryan is a manager at the Flint Crepe Company and is living peacebuilding as a way of life. In 2011, he and his family moved back home to one of the country’s hardest hit cities and he splits his time between running a community-oriented restaurant (leveraging restaurant resources for community development and social change) and as Project Director for his church’s Children’s Defense Fund Freedom School (at Bethel UMC). He and his wife also run a food and flower urban farm on their two city lots, supplying local venues and stores with local produce and fresh cut flowers.

This profile was last updated October 16, 2018