Michael Shukwit
Director of Operations
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Michael Shukwit, Elmwood Cemetery Director of Operations, has over 30 years of experience in the cemetery business. Mr. Shukwit is responsible for managing operations at Elmwood Cemetery - Detroit. Mr. Shukwit manages the grounds crew and all outside operations, including buildings, capital improvements, grounds, interments, memorial/monument cleaning, arboretum, gardens, and working with the Historic Elmwood Foundation on restoration, education, and community events programming.

Bonita Smith
Director of Administration, Elmwood Cemetery
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Bonita Smith, Director of Administration, also has over 25 years of experience in the industry. Her responsibilities include managing the overall administration of Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit. This includes record keeping, banking, and accounts receivable and payable. In addition, Ms. Smith provides guidance to customers on lot selection, mausoleums, and all other burial matters. She is the primary liaison to area funeral homes on interment matters.

Ciara Green-Lowe
Memorial Advisor, Elmwood Cemetery
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Ciara Green-Lowe, Memorial Advisor, has over 15 years customer service and sales experience. Ms. Lowe serves as Memorial Advisor to Elmwood Cemetery in Detroit. She counsels customers on all burial matters including selection of lots and niches, memorials, and tributes as well as preplanning needs. She works with the staffs of area funeral homes on interment matters.

Amy Elliott Bragg
Director, Education and Communications, Historic Elmwood Foundation
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Amy Elliott Bragg joined the Foundation in January 2024, though she's been wandering around Elmwood doing research and giving tours for over a decade. She leads the Foundation's public programs, including tours, special events, and community partnerships, and directs the Foundation's communications with members, the media and the general public. A former editor at The Detroit News and Crain's Detroit Business, Amy continues to write about Detroit's history as a freelancer, in her own newsletter, and on Elmwood's social and digital channels. She is a past president of Preservation Detroit and was named to the National Trust for Historic Preservation's first 40 Under 40 list in 2018. Say hello if you see her wandering the grounds!  

Lawrence F. Sloane
Director
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