Karen Tyler-Ruiz

Karen Tyler-Ruiz has spent the last 20 years of her career building practical frameworks and strategies in support of Metro Detroiters and Black and Brown folks having agency in our local economy. This includes working, earning, and owning with dignity to support a quality life for ourselves, our families and local communities.

Tyler-Ruiz currently is the Executive Director of the Center for Community Enterprise (C2BE). C2BE supports the creation of people-centered businesses: cooperatives and community-based enterprises that are owned and run by their workers and/or members. Workers and members have an equal say in what their organization does and how it generates and uses profits.

Tyler-Ruiz’s accomplishments include helping bring into existence the Greater Detroit Centers for Working Families and accessible financial coaching for the average person. She helped create the Access for All pre-apprenticeship construction trades program increasing the number of Detroiters in the pipeline; led community-based placemaking in Detroit, and served on city-led commercial corridor redevelopment initiatives.

She is principal consultant of Tyler-Ruiz & Associates, LLC., and is fully bilingual in English and Spanish.