Who Bobby is

President

Eastside Colts Inc., 501(c)(3) — youth football and cheer

Coach & mentor

Years on Detroit fields and in after-school rooms

Father

Raising children in the district he wants to serve

He has been doing this work without the title.

Bobby Christian is a Detroit father, coach and mentor who has spent years doing the unglamorous work of showing up for other people’s children.

He is the President of Eastside Colts Inc., a 501(c)(3) youth football and cheer organization on Detroit’s east side. Hundreds of children have come through it — for practice, for structure, for a hot meal, for somewhere to be on a Saturday and someone to answer to on a Tuesday. It is run by volunteers, mostly parents, mostly out of their own pockets.

That work is the whole argument for this campaign. Bobby has spent years on the receiving end of decisions made by people who never meet the children those decisions land on — and he has watched what it costs when adults get it wrong. He is not running to learn about Detroit’s young people. He already knows them by name.

The board sets the direction. Bobby has spent years on the receiving end of those decisions — in gyms, on fields and in after-school rooms, with the children the decisions land on.