On Friday (10/4) Crain’s Detroit Business announced its selection of 40 of the “community’s high achievers” under the age of 40 who have made significant impacts on the city. “This year’s winners launched companies, helped grow established firms, created products, swung international deals, improved health care and aided nonprofits.” Among those named were Afa Sadykhly Dworkin, 37, executive and artistic director of the Detroit-based Sphinx Organization. “Dworkin has developed all performance and outreach programs for children both nationally and internationally for Sphinx, which provides music education and orchestral/solo performance opportunities for black and Latino musicians. Dworkin, the wife of Sphinx founder and President Aaron Dworkin, oversaw the 2005 launch of the Global Scholars program that took Sphinx alumni around the globe to teach, learn and perform. More recently, she brought a panel of notables from different arts disciplines to Detroit to speak at SphinxCon, an international conference on diversity in the performing arts. In July, the Sphinx board of directors named Dworkin, who’d also served as director of development from 2003 to 2004, as executive and artistic director for the organization. She’s taken on oversight of Sphinx’s $3.5 million budget and 40 employees, as well as all fundraising.”
Posted October 8, 2013
