CONTRIBUTORS

NORM SINCLAIR

Norm Sinclair has been a contributing writer for DBusiness for nearly a decade, during which time he’s produced a variety of cover stories including the demise of Art Van Furniture, the resurrection of the Westin Book Cadillac Hotel, and a profile of Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr. His features covering the Midland dam floods and Art Van won him two of three national Gold Medals awarded to the magazine in the 2021 Alliance of Area Business Publishers Editorial Excellence Awards. A Michigan State University graduate, Sinclair spent 34 years at The Detroit News, where he was an investigative reporter covering criminal justice and white-collar crime. A Pulitzer Prize finalist, he was elected to the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame in 2008. In this issue, he covers the effort to bring gold and silver mining back to the Upper Peninsula, and writes profiles of Stephen Kircher of Boyne Resorts and inventor Frank Venegas Jr.

Trever Long is a metro Detroit-based freelance photographer who specializes in architecture, portraiture, and editorial photography. In this issue, he put his architecture photography skills on display shooting the new STEM Teaching and Learning Facility at Michigan State University in East Lansing. Since graduating from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit in 2010, he has created work for clients including Quicken Loans, Olympia Entertainment, and Theatre Bizarre. His images have appeared in a variety of publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Travel + Leisure, and Prosper magazine. When he’s not taking photos, he can often be found exploring local hiking trails with his wife and their pup, Luna.

CONTRIBUTION: Writer, Features, and Patents and Inventions | SEE IT HERE: Pages 52, 58, 74

MATTHEW LAVERE

Matthew LaVere is a commercial portrait and corporate photographer based in Detroit. He understands that most people don’t enjoy being in front of the camera, which is why he continues to learn how to direct and capture realistic expressions in his portraits in the least amount of time by working on personal portrait projects outside of client work. LaVere photographed former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder for this issue’s cover story, Return of the Nerd. He has worked with many brands and publications, including Hour Detroit, DBusiness, Car Design News, DFCU, Shinola, the Detroit Lions, Ford Motor Co., and HBO.

CONTRIBUTION: Photographer, Cover and Cover Story | SEE IT HERE: Page 40

TREVER LONG

CONTRIBUTION: Photographer, Perspectives | SEE IT HERE: Page 34

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Ronald Ahrens, Tom Beaman, Derek Dickow, Paul Eisenstein, Tom Murray, Norm Sinclair

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