He is also a dedicated mass transit advocate, serving as Chairman of the Regional Transportation Authority’s Citizens Advisory Committee, after previously working on senior staff at Chicago’s Regional Transportation Authority. He is also co-owner of Motor City NYE, which throws a free 20,000-person New Year’s Eve event in Detroit's Campus Martius. He graduated from the University of Michigan and Northwestern Law School, and lived in Chicago for nearly a decade before returning home to Detroit in 2012.