About Desire
Bio
Desire Vincent Levy is a communications strategist specializing in advocacy and impact litigation, and the co-founder of Detroit Kitchen Terminal, a non-profit community kitchen named one of Detroit’s 2020 Food Fighters of the Year. She is currently a Michigan Political Leadership Fellow with the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research at Michigan State University and Executive Producer of a forthcoming Detroit Free Press documentary. Desire served as a communications consultant for the MichiganVoting.org 2020 Election Protection Program (EPP), where she led the strategy and execution of all creative initiatives for the EPP public education efforts, including a statewide public art series. Prior to that she served as the Associate Director of Communications for the ACLU of Michigan where she worked on communications and digital strategy for litigation related to the Flint Water Crisis, tax foreclosure in Detroit, immigrant rights, other issues impacting Michiganders, as well as the launch of Promote the Vote, a 2018 ballot initiative that amended the state constitution to vastly expand access to the ballot in Michigan. Before the ACLU, Desire held positions with the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, the Women’s Prison Association and the Vera Institute of Justice. She is on the Board of Directors for the Detroit Food & Youth Entrepreneurship Academy, The Army of Survivors, and on the Board of Trustees at the Museum of Food and Drink.