People Issue

Every year, the City Pulse features a few people from the community who are making a positive change. This is one of my favorite projects each December because I get to meet personalities that have made an impact on the day-to-day things in my life. It’s such an honor to be able to tell their photos via portraiture.

These people aren’t the 10 richest, the 10 most influential, the up-and-comers, the movers and shakers, the whatever-happened-tos or any other of the labels that are pretty much used up on the newsstands by now. Most of them made some news, big or small, in 2017. We talked with them for a while and found much more to enjoy and learn from. The interviews were edited for length and clarity. The photos are, for the third year, by Khalid Ibrahim.
Berl Schwartz Lansing City Pulse