The Detroit Regional Chamber, in promotional partnership with Michigan Economic Development Corporation's Pure Michigan Business Connect, hosted Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Small Businesses on Nov. 16, 2021, to discuss how diversity, equity, and inclusion can benefit small businesses and is a good business decision, and the ways Detroit residents can receive priority consideration for business opportunities. The event featured a panel moderated by the Chamber's Chief Operating Officer Tammy Carnrike, and included Chanell Scott Contreras, executive director at ProsperUS; Portia Roberson, president and chief executive officer at Focus: HOPE; and Kim Rustem, director of the City of Detroit's Civil Rights, Inclusion, and Opportunity Department.