Contact Us

Please call or email one of the Welcoming Michigan Communities Coordinators -- Christine Sauvé in Southeast Michigan or Lillie Wolff in West Michigan, using the following contact information. Or you may fill out and submit the form below. Thank you!

Christine Sauvé

Southeast Michigan Communities Coordinator, (734) 845-8695 / csauve@lsscm.org

Lillie Wolff

West Michigan Communities Coordinator, (269) 492-7196, Ext. #238 / lwolff@lsscm.org

Welcoming Michigan

For all other correspondence and contact: Welcoming Michigan Administrative Offices at Michigan Immigrant Rights Center 3030 South 9th Street, Suite 1A Kalamazoo, Michigan 49007

Phone: (269) 492-7196 / Fax: (269) 492-7198

Every contribution makes a difference and helps us continue the important work of making Michigan a more welcoming place for all. Thank you for your generous donation!

Here are specific examples of what your contribution can do:

$75: Fund one radio ad
$100 -$500: Sponsor a community-building event
$250-$1000: Fund a billboard for one month

What is Welcoming Michigan?

When it comes to immigration, it’s easy to let differences separate us. Michigan thrives when we bring the best of what has been and the best of what can be together to create a stronger, more vibrant Michigan for all. At Welcoming Michigan, we seek to build mutual respect among foreign-born and U.S.-born people who call Michigan home today. Together. It’s better.

Why We Care

Welcoming Michigan works to support Michigan’s “receiving community” members—U.S.-born Americans who live in communities where immigrants settle — in creating welcoming communities where immigrants can fully integrate into their adopted hometowns. This is why we care...

Why It Works

Immigrants account for large and growing shares of the economy and the electorate in Michigan. Immigrants make up 6.0% of the state’s population. Being a welcoming state is in the best interest of all Michiganders.

Who Supports It

From all angles, it simply makes sense for U.S.-born Michiganders to make it easy for immigrants to call Michigan home. Michigan’s most forward-thinking leaders are in favor of being welcoming.

Gov. Rick Snyder

Governor of Michigan

“For the overwhelming majority of immigrants, the opportunity to begin again—and flourish...

—is what made Michigan great. We need to continue to harness this thirst for success and the work ethic that makes success possible, to help Michigan grow once again.”

Rep. Rashida Tlaib

Michigan House of Representatives, 12th House District

“There are challenges to picking up a life family...

Michiganders are some of the friendliest people in the world and we are all ready to help our new neighbors settle in and begin their new lives in our communities and our state. Welcome to Michigan!”

Steve Tobocman

Director, Global Detroit

“Welcoming Michigan not only represents the values (hospitality, kindness, and friendliness) of the...

midwestern state in which I was raised, but it actually creates the kind of welcoming environment essential for economic growth in a global economy. If Michigan is to compete, we have to welcome the investment, the jobs, the workers, and the ingenuity of immigrants and refugees. Welcoming Michigan is the foundation of a global economic growth strategy to return prosperity to our state.”

The Welcoming Michigan initiative is supported by the Ford Foundation;
and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.