An Angel For Detroit

is Sandra Braham's groundbreaking memoir, detailing her family's history dating back to 1805. This large, poor farming family made its way from Coatopa, Alabama to Kinloch, Missouri where heartbreak, love, and the mysteries of faith shaped their lives. The story takes unexpected turns when the youngest daughter, Doris, gave birth, and raised three daughters, keeping them close while living with schizophrenia. Ms. Braham's memoir follows her childhood, through foster care, and then to her ultimate success, both personal and professional. Having benefited from her family's generational faith and an angel encounter that awakened her. This true-to-life story will be a book that you will not be able to put down until the last page is read. Dr. Braham is an innovative, award-winner leader who has spent her life envisioning and building programs, services, and agencies that provide people access to countless opportunities. In doing so, she has worked to support policies and programs which improve the lives of children and close historic gaps that hinder individuals' and families' future success. Over the first 17 years of her career in higher education, Sandra worked for a two-year vocational-technical college in Indiana before working her way to the position of associate vice provost at a major Texas University. Then, she realized that God's plan for her life and career had shifted. She began overseeing very large, complex nonprofit agencies, bringing with her much-needed inspiration and transformational leadership. She has continued this path for more than 15 years. Braham completed Leadership Texas, Leadership America, and Harvard Business School's Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management executive education program. She has also shared her strong leadership acumen as a volunteer with both community and professional organizations. She is active with national and international organizations, sharing her expertise while also addressing issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. She is married and the mother of three adult children.