Mrs. Driker conceptualized, developed, and for 11 years directed at WSU the Detroit Orientation Institute (DOI), a course that provides a jump-start on learning about the city and the region for business, nonprofit, media and other professionals new to metropolitan Detroit.  Driker also has worked for Livonia, MI, and Arlington, VA, public schools, Detroit Edison (DTE Energy) and the Detroit Strategic Planning Project.  She continues to be an active volunteer in both the Jewish and general communities.  She served as president of Hillel of Metro Detroit and as a WSU member of the Board of Visitors in the College Liberal Arts and Sciences. She was president of the Palmer Woods Association in the neighborhood where she resides and has been on the boards of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan State Fair and Exposition Center Authority, Temple Emanu-El (Oak Park) and Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC). She is a founding co-chair of the Detroit Jewish Initiative, a project of the JCRC and Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit that joined individuals and institutions in the Jewish community with their counterparts in Detroit to work on meaningful, “on-the-ground” programs to benefit the city and its residents, and co-chaired a photographic exhibit, “Blacks and Jews: The American Experience.” Driker was honored as a “Woman of Achievement” by the Anti-Defamation League of Michigan, received the “Activist of the Year” award from the Jewish Community Relations Council of Metropolitan Detroit and is an Emeritus board member of the Detroit Institute of Arts.

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