Geraldine GrunowGrunow was born and raised in Scotland. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an MA in English Literature and Latin, and from the University of Aberdeen with a Dip. Ed. She volunteered for two years as a language teacher in St. Francis avier Junior Seminary in Wa, in the Upper Region of Ghana. It was there that she met her future husband, Ken Grunow, a native of Wayne, Michigan; they returned to Wa when their oldest child was six months old and stayed for two years before returning to Detroit and raising their three children. As a stay-at-home mother while their children were young, Grunow became a member of Amnesty International's (AI) Detroit Chapter. Both she and her husband appreciated AI's lens on world-wide human rights and, as coordinators of the group for over forty years, they have organized hundreds of meetings, presentations, conferences, vigils, and protests-as well as written many letters and postcards urging governments everywhere to adhere to international law. She and her husband have also worked for several years as sponsors for one of the groups of the Global Scholars Program at the University of Ann Arbor. Part-time teaching positions at the Center for Creative Studies and Henry Ford Community College led to a full time position at HFC in 1990. Grunow spent twenty-seven very happy years there as an instructor in the English Division; she enjoyed teaching courses in Children's Literature, English131 (Introduction to Composition), English 132, and Developmental Writing. In addition, Grunow was active in several non-teaching activities on Campus, including the Library Committee, the Cultural Activities Program, the Honors Program, and Local 1650 of the Michigan Federation of Teachers. She was honored to be recognized by the Focus on Women Program with an award and by the Union with a certificate when she retired in 2017. Grunow continues to focus on Amnesty International work, as well as grass-roots work for asylum-seekers through Freedom House Detroit and We Stand with Our Neighbors. Moving to Dearborn has made it convenient for her to support the work of the League of Women Voters and Friends of the Rouge. Like Ken, she wishes the current Pandemic wasn't making it so hard to spend real time with children, children-in-law, and grandchildren, whose company they delight in. Read More Read Less