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Jordan Charlupski,
26, of Birmingham
is sales executive for
the Detroit City
Football Club (FC).
The minor-league
soccer team with a
co-recreational
league started in
2012, tapping into
the growing interest in the sport and to
serve as a community-organizing
endeavor for residents. In season, about
7,000 attend the semi-professional
team’s games in the National Premier
Soccer League. Jordan raised $750,000
to renovate the home club’s Keyworth
Stadium in Hamtramck. Detroit City FC
works with Detroit Police Athletic
League to operate free youth soccer
clinics and gives free season tickets to
Detroit PAL soccer players. Jordan grad-
uated from Hillel Day School and
earned a bachelor of arts degree in
sport management at the University of
Michigan. He participates in events with
The Well and NEXTGen Detroit. At
work, Jordan assists the club’s general
manager with sponsorship, ticket sales
and community investment. Their goal
is putting Detroit in a positive light
through soccer.

Sam Dubin, 25, of
West Bloomfield is
director of sales and
marketing at Dubin
Cleaners & Laundry
in Farmington Hills,
the fourth generation
in the family busi-
ness. He is past presi-
dent of BNI-Partners
for Success, a business and professional

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networking group, and a
board member of Michigan
Institute of Laundering and Dry
Cleaning. Sam oversees Dubin Cleaners &
Laundry’s annual Winter Warmth
Campaign— in which they clean all cloth-
ing before donating. He is a mentsh who
has a tremendous impact in the Jewish
community. Sam’s efforts to make young
LGBTQ Jews feel included and stay in
Metro Detroit led to the creation of
NEXTGen Detroit Pride. He uses his plat-
form as NEXTGen Pride’s chair to seek
acceptance for these young adults. Sam
serves on the NEXTGen Detroit board of
directors and has chaired Good Shabbos
Detroit and currently co-chairs Birthright
Connection. Sam is also a committee
member of the Jewish Federation of Metro
Detroit’s Jewish Education and Identity
Division.

Adam Finkel, 30, of
Bloomfield Hills is
a partner in Orfin
Ventures LLC, a
Bloomfield Hills-
based venture capi-
tal firm making
deals alongside
other industry
heavyweights.
Known for his ability to engage and con-
nect people, Adam raised $100,000 to
sustain the initial years of Southeast
Michigan’s first Moishe House, a nonprof-
it initiative that encourages young Jewish
leaders living in Detroit. He was among
150 Jewish innovators worldwide who
gathered for intensive networking and
problem-solving at the 2016 ROI Global
Summit in Jerusalem. He is a Jewish News
contributing writer and board member
of Congregation Shaarey Zedek,
NEXTGen Detroit, NEXTGen Connect
and the Detroit chapter of the Technion.
Adam also volunteers with Detroit
Homecoming, recruiting 180 successful
Detroit expats to return for a yearly con-
ference. The former White House intern
was selected this year as one of 10 young
U.S. Jewish leaders to participate in a
leadership program organized by Jewish
philanthropist Jeffrey Swartz.

Oren Goldenberg,
33, of Detroit is a
visual artist and film-
maker. His company,
Cass Corridor Films,
focuses on how video
intersects with con-
temporary art and
culture, producing
feature films, instal-
lations, music videos, commercials and
documentaries. He was honored with a
2013 Kresge Fellowship in Visual Arts and,
in 2016, with the Bernard L. Maas Award.
Oren began making films in Detroit circa
2003. Since then, he has created and
maintains a successful business, bought a
home and organizes within his Detroit
community. He has been stabilizing and
revitalizing the historic Isaac Agree
Downtown Synagogue (IADS) as an active
board member, spearheading financial
campaigns to save the formerly struggling
synagogue, creating programs and rituals
such as the infamous IADS dance party
and Simchat Torah celebration, and lead-
ing services. Oren innovates, leads and
inspires with his warm, outreaching pres-
ence and command of an audience. His
work, whether in shul or in the arts, focus-
es on rituals of healing and catharsis. He is
also the co-owner of Sector 7-G record-
ings, an experimental dance music label,
and a board member at Make Art Work,
the nonprofit that solves complex societal
problems by using art and participation
as a mechanism to create local ownership
and long-term systemic change.

Susannah
Goodman, 29, of
Detroit is an artist,
art educator, arts
administrator and
arts advocate.
Susannah is a pro-
gram manager with
Southwest Detroit-
based community
arts nonprofit Living Arts. Susannah also
manages Ladybug Studios, a ceramics
makerspace and co-operative gallery
located in the Hubbard Farms community
in Southwest Detroit. Ladybug is home to
a co-operative of ceramic artists, teachers
and activists who host free drop-in classes
for the neighborhood and broader Metro
Detroit communities. From playing in the
mud to advising on statewide and nation-
al arts policy, she makes art and makes art
happen at many levels. A gubernatorial
appointee, Susannah is currently serving
in her second three-year term on the
Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural
Affairs, where she advocates for equitable
arts funding statewide. She has represent-
ed Detroit and Michigan with the National
Association of State Arts Agencies, and
with Jane Chu, the chairwoman of the
National Endowment for the Arts.
Susannah is a lifelong member of

Congregation T’Chiyah in Oak Park, a
board member at the Isaac Agree
Downtown Synagogue, and a leader in
Detroit Jews for Justice, promoting racial
and economic justice at the intersection
of art and activism.

Robyn Hughey, 30,
of East Lansing is
associate director of
MSU Hillel at
Michigan State
University and Hillel
Campus Alliance of
Michigan (HCAM).
Robyn models excel-
lence in her work by
engaging students, empowering student
leaders, mentoring staff, advancing Hillel’s
mission and building community for
Jewish students on more than 11 campus-
es throughout Michigan. Her skills were a
vital part of creating HCAM, a thriving
network of 10 campuses serving more
than 2,000 students statewide. Much of
this growth can be attributed to Robyn’s
positive attitude, hard work and belief that
every Jewish student should have access
to Jewish life during his or her college
years. She empowers student leaders to
use peer-to-peer engagement on their
campuses to create supportive environ-
ments for students to explore and
strengthen their Jewish identity. Many of
the Jewish students that Robyn mentors
move on to jobs and volunteer positions
in their Jewish community after gradua-
tion.

Justin Jacobs, 34, of
Detroit and Berkley
is the founder and
CEO of Come Play
Detroit (CPD).
Through his business
and partnerships in
the community,
Justin has trans-
formed the Metro
Detroit landscape in terms of putting
more “play” into everyday life. Justin start-
ed offering recreational sports leagues
after noticing few local options. The
Jewish Federation helped him with free
office space and a website. Today, thou-
sands of young Jews and others partici-
pate in CPD’s various social leagues,
including kickball, softball, indoor and
sand volleyball, bowling, basketball, flag
football, broomball, bubble soccer and
even euchre. From a large-scale dodgeball
event on Belle Isle to a packed Ford Field
for a yoga program, CPD also partners
with local nonprofits to enhance life while
benefiting charities. CPD is a partner on
the annual Pitch for Detroit event, a
Jewish Federation fundraiser. The boards
Justin serves on include BBYO-Michigan
Region, Wins for Warriors and the
Founders Junior Council of the DIA.