Curt Guyette joined the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan in the fall of 2013 as interim media liaison, and then was named investigative reporter, a newly created position funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation. He writes about exclusively issues involving emergency management and open government. Before joining the ACLU of Michigan, Curt worked as a print journalist for more than 30 years, including 18 years at the Metro Times, an alternative newsweekly based in Detroit. Guyette graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh with a BA in English writing. He is the recipient of numerous local, state and national journalism awards. The State Bar of Michigan has honored him three times for his outstanding coverage of legal issues. In January he was honored as the Michigan Press Association’s “Journalist of the Year.”