Hudson-Webber CEO Melanca Clark to step down, leave Detroit

Melanca Clark, president and CEO of the Hudson-Webber Foundation, is departing the foundation and Detroit.

Clark and the couple’s two children will join her husband Moddie Turay in Boston this summer.

Turay, who served as executive vice president of real estate andnancial services for the Detroit Economic Growth Corp. before starting his own real estate development company, was named president and CEO of Massachusetts Housing Investment Corp. last summer.

During her seven-year tenure at Hudson-Webber, Clark, 48, brought a strong social justice and equity focus to its work.

“It’s been an absolute privilege to work with our board, sta and committed and dynamic partners to help move this incredible city forward,”

Clark said.

“We expanded our investments to the city’s neighborhoods and into new models of leadership and leaders, to help ensure that all residents bene t from the city’s growth and are shaping their own future. ank you for allowing me to be a part of this extraordinary journey.”

Clark will continue to support the foundation through a transition of leadership to a new CEO. e foundation’s chair, Jennifer Hudson Parke, will lead a search committee to identify its next CEO.

Clark will also continue to chair the Council of Michigan Foundations and Michigan Justice Fund Steering Committee through November. She is also a member of the boards of the Center for Employment Opportunities, Downtown Detroit Partnership, Michigan Futures Inc., the Michigan Center for Youth Justice, BasBlue and the advisory board of Detroit LISC and will decide with each how long she will continue to serve.

“It will be a gradual step-down, and we’ll see what the next chapter holds,” Clark said. e foundation’s board will be forever grateful for Clark’s inspirational leadership and stewardship, Hudson Parke said in a release.

“When Melanca began her tenure, she launched a robust strategic planning process through a social justice and equity lens that has set the agenda for our organization for years to come.”

Clark came to Detroit after serving as chief of sta in the O ce of Community Oriented Policing Services for the Department of Justice during the Obama administration.