About Diane
Diane Bukowski was born in Detroit in 1948 and still lives there. She graduated from Wayne State University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science in psychology and anthropology. During the 60’s and 70’s, she worked in the anti-STRESS movement, struggles on behalf of prisoners after the Attica Rebellion, and anti-war campaigns.
After her employment with the City of Detroit Health Department in 1974, she was elected to various union posts in Local 457 of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). She campaigned during that time against the privatization of Detroit General Hospital and other city assets, and joined a coalition against the plant closings that began to devastate Detroit.
In 1995, she transferred to the City’s Human Rights Department, where she monitored Mayor Coleman Young’s Executive Order No. 22 (50 percent Detroit residents, 25 percent “minorities,” and 5 percent women on construction projects with city tax dollars going into them). She also certified Detroit-Based and Small Businesses.
Upon her retirement from the City in 1999, she began writing for The Michigan Citizen newspaper as a free-lancer. She covers privatization and government corruption, the Detroit Public Schools, police brutality, and prisoners’ rights, among other issues. In 2000, she broke the story of Eugene Brown, the Detroit police officer who unjustifiably killed three men in 1995, 1996 and 1999. She has continued to expose killer and rapist cops, as well as the failure of Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy to charge them.
Bukowski also works part-time for a non-profit organization that helps to place homeless families and individuals. She is single with no children, but a loving daughter to her mother Dorothy Bukowski and recently deceased father Robert Bukowski, sister to six siblings, and aunt to 10 nieces and nephews and one grand-nephew.
May 26, 2009 12:07 pm