NAIAS Future Automotive Career Expo To Feature Talent Transplants And Why They Chose Michigan
Originally from Boston, Asha Garro, a 24-year-old General Motors employee, had three offers upon her graduation from Howard University. She was battling between San Francisco, Chicago and Detroit.
Garro chose Michigan. And she fell in love with Detroit.
Talent transplants, just like Garro, are taking center stage at the 2019 North American International Auto Show’s Future Automotive Career Expo (FACE), presented by Talent and Economic Development Department of Michigan (Ted), to talk about why they chose to plant their roots here and their efforts to recruit others just like them.More

The North American International Auto Show announced today tickets for the 2019 show are now available for purchase on the show’s 
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I have a confession to make. I haven’t been to the Auto Show in a few years. Okay, maybe over a decade. Like any child growing up in the environs of the Motor City, the Auto Show was the social event of the season. We’d drive downtown, park in a far-flung surface parking lot where men bundled in heavy coats against the Midwestern January cold waved us to the right spot with brightly colored flags, and take the crowded People Mover between the skyscrapers to our destination. Cobo Hall was vast, bigger than any place I had ever been, full of people, fried food, and of course – cars – ones where I was allowed to hop in the driver’s seat and full of that glorious new car smell.