How To Live In Detroit Without Being A Jackass | Aaron Foley | TEDxDetroit

With advice on everything from buying and rehabbing a house to not sounding like a completely uninformed racist when you talk to a black person, Aaron helps us avoid falling into the “jackass” trap and become the productive, healthy Detroiter we’ve always wanted to be.

Aaron Foley is a copywriter at global advertising agency based in Metro Detroit by day. Prior to joining the advertising world, he was a full-time journalist and still occasionally freelances. Although, most of his time is spent working on his first book, “How to Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass,” which is due on shelves in September 2015. Foley started his career as a copy editor at the Lansing State Journal, and later came back to Detroit to help launch MLive Detroit, an experiment in online-only journalism in a city dominated by legacy media. After three years at MLive working as a web producer and covering education and entertainment, Foley embraced his lifelong love of cars working as an associate editor at WardsAuto, an industry trade. While working at Ward’s, he was approached by Jalopnik to contribute dispatches about the Motor City. That morphed into Jalopnik Detroit, a Gawker Media subblog with original takes on the constantly changing narrative of the city.

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