Staff & CoCo

For 22 years, Dan Edwards was the lead carpenter for Clark Home Improvement, a company contracted by the ICC to do major projects such as siding and window replacements. So, although, Dan was formally hired by the ICC in 2012 as a Maintenance Technician, he had actually been working on ICC houses since 2002! While at his previous job, Dan was lead carpenter on major ICC siding projects at King, Ruths’, Lester, Linder and Debs. He also helped to replace windows at Truth and Escher. Now, as an ICC Maintenance Tech, he tackles smaller remodeling jobs and all types of maintenance issues facing our houses.

Deric managed a painting crew for 12 years before joining the ICC as a Maintenance Technician in 2016.  Deric is our resident expert in painting, drywall, and various other skills. He tackles a variety of maintenance issues and projects in our homes and takes pride in continually improving our facilities.

Pink Flowers is a Black trans artist, pleasure activist, and educator working at the intersection of performance, liberation, and collective healing. Her practice draws from ancient shamanic traditions, African trickster cosmologies, and the Brazilian Joker lineage of Augusto Boal, transforming theatre into a living laboratory for justice, imagination, and embodied freedom.

Pink integrates Theater of the Oppressed, Art of Hosting, Navajo Peacemaking, and anti-oppression frameworks into dynamic processes for group healing, conflict transformation, and civic engagement. Her work invites communities not just to talk about change — but to rehearse it.

She is the founder of the award-winning Falconworks Theater Company, a popular theatre collective dedicated to building civic capacity and advancing social transformation. Under her leadership, Falconworks has used performance as a tool to interrogate racial capitalism, economic democracy, and community power — earning recognition, awards, and citations for public service.

Pink has served as faculty at Montclair State University and Pace University and as a company member of Shakespeare in Detroit, bridging classical performance with contemporary political theatre. Across institutions and grassroots spaces alike, she is known for making complex systems visible — and for reminding us that joy itself is a revolutionary act.

Elliot is a long-time ICC member, serving as Luther treasurer in 2021-22, Luther house president in 2022-23, and VP for Finance in 2023-24., and now lives at Linder. As Finance Department Liaison, Elliot works with FinCom on scholarships, budgeting, financial reporting, and financial policy, provides support to the housing department with the posting of charges, and assists other departments with internal budgeting.

Kyle is a long-term member of the ICC, living in Owen from 2017 until 2021 and in Baker from 2021 to the present. As the Accounts Payable Coordinator, he supports House Treasurers in managing the House accounts across all 16 cooperative houses and works with the VP of Finance and the Director of Finance to develop Treasurer training. He also processes all Share Return Forms and manages the House food accounts payable as well as house credit card accounts and applies fines and fees as assessed by house treasurers.

McKinney joined the ICC team as the Director of Member Services in 2014. After seven fun-filled “seasons” of figuring out 75 years of history and what exactly a “member service” was, they’ve transitioned to a new role. McKinney is ready and willing to tackle a massive barrier the organization faces. . . COMMUNICATION. Since the pandemic took priority over operations, McKinney will hit the ground running this Spring/Summer 2021 as the newly minted Director of Communications. McKinney is primarily responsible for Communication Strategy and Knowledge Management Support. They hope to achieve organizational goals by working cooperatively with the Communications Coordinator and Vice President of Marketing and Recruitment. McKinney hopes to dismantle the silos of central operations and remind members that they are in fact empowered to lead one of the oldest and somewhat largest student housing co-ops in the country. A big believer in the Leadership Challenge, McKinney continues to tackle the turnover and constant transitions by….

1. Modeling the way
2. Inspiring a shared vision
3. Challenging the process
4. Enabling others to act
5. Encouraging the heart

All. . . at the speed of cooperation!

Lenny (they/them) lived at Black Elk House from 2015-2017, reigning as House President and Board Representative while additionally holding nearly every house officer position at least once (also, check out their mural in the BE mailroom!). After leaving Black Elk and moving to Ypsi, they’ve worked at the ICC as a temp Spring/Summer Housing Coordinator in 2017 and moved from part-time to full-time staff as Housing Coordinator from 2019-2022. In their current role, Lenny at a glance manages ICC guff resources. This catch-all role includes management of harm reduction supplies, merchandise creation (we are now screenprinting in house!), annual Co-op Spring Break trips, office chocolate, Education Center bookings, and guff truck usage; they also advise the Marketing Committee, sit on the Emergency House Operations Team (EHOT), offer mediation and conflict resolution facilitation, continuously encourage political education & outreach efforts for members and staff, assist with house re-theming efforts (such as the shift from Lester to Johnson-Rivera House) and work alongside other staff in GuffBA (bulk ordering) efforts. Name a project and Lenny is probably involved in some way!

In 2025 Lenny and their wife, Alyssa, welcomed their first child, Milo, to their family.

Susan is the staff liaison to the ICC Alumni Team (AT). Her job is to coordinate, assist and support the Alumni Team in the maintenance of an ICC Alumni Program. Some of her responsibilities include developing and maintaining relationships between the ICC and current alumni; alumni event planning; working with the Alumni Team to achieve strategic planning objectives; coordinating with the appropriate committees and staff regarding alum participation in ICC current member events; managing social media and connection projects and implementing a fundraising initiative.

Libbie was born and raised in Ann Arbor and has been involved in coops since birth.  In addition to boarding and living at Nakamura in the 1990s, Libbie probably holds the record for the second youngest person to ever attend a Xanadu Coop Halloween Party (blame her father, Luther Buchele).  Libbie worked for the federal government for 20 years in health policy (Medicaid and Long-term care) as well as in the federal operations support area, including budgeting, contracting, employee engagement, and human resources.  She has also managed a community health center for low income and uninsured patients, worked in France at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, and has had brief stints working at a union as well as innumerable political campaigns.  She is fluent in Spanish and French, and may break out into showtunes without warning.