Advocating for under-represented and disenfranchised communities for over 20 years

 

Tonya Myers Phillips is an attorney and leader with a lifelong history of service and advocacy on behalf of the community. Tonya was born and raised in the City of Detroit.  She is the daughter of a Detroit Public Schools teacher and union member.

 

What I fight for

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, "Letter from Birmingham Jail," April 16, 1963