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Lori Fidler

Lori Fidler
Executive Director

Oak Park Business and Education Alliance

2008–2009
Board of Directors

President
Carol Purdy, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

Vice President
Donna Duffield, William Beaumont Hospital

Treasurer
Kenneth Snow, Hagopian Cleaning Services

Secretary
Roz Blanck, Past OPSD Student

Directors

Trisha Benson, Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn, LLP
Janice Blackman, Oak Park Resident
Frank Brock, Cornerstone Development
Jean Chamberlain, JNC Consulting LLC
Mona DeFrancesco, Michigan WORKS! Oak Park Career Center
Shannon E. Dulin, Comcast
Chuck Fowlkes, Consumers Energy
Hon. Michelle Friedman Appel, 45-B District Court
Sandra Harris, Ed. D., Oak Park School District
Robert Jones, AT&T Michigan
Lisa Lunsford, I-Thinc
Glenn McIntosh
, Oakland University
Dave Meslin, Outback Steakhouse Southfield
Perry Ohren, Jewish Family Service
James K. Ralph, Jr., James Ralph Agency, Inc.
Steven Reif, PhD., Oakland Community College
Loretta Smith, Comerica Bank
William Washington, Roosevelt Middle School

Advisory Board

John Almstadt, Oakland County Workforce Development Division
John Labriola, William Beaumont Hospital
Honorable L. Brooks Patterson, County of Oakland
Norman Yatooma, Norman Yatooma & Associates P.C.


As teachers, we appreciate the outside perspective that the business community brings to our students through OPBEA programs.

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Career exploration becomes a valuable life experience when a student has the opportunity to be on a site, following in a professional's foot steps.

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"We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others."

— Helen Keller (1880–1968)

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