My City February 2022

Award of Excellence RECIPIENTS

Cook-Hawkins is the executive director of Alternative Solutions Development, LLC., a total life transformation platform. She is a wife, mother, business owner, City of Flint Commissioner, community advocate and First Lady of Prince of Peace Missionary Baptist Church. A certied Professional Life and Transformation Coach, Cook-Haw- kins has over 12 years of experi- ence enhancing the performance of her clients and organizations. During the Flint Water Crisis, Cook-Hawkins’ church developed the Flint4000 program to assist senior citizens and the homebound population who didn’t have access to clean drinking water. She has hosted marches to end gun violence in Flint, women’s confer- ences to build up and encourage women, and worked to end the sat- uration of liquor stores in the city. During the early stages of the COVID pandemic, she hand- made over 5,000 masks to help the residents of Flint and went on to create her business, Fabrics of Faith, to help prevent the spread of COVID nationwide.  APRIL Cook-Hawkins

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