Mari Copeny Is More Than Little Miss Flint

Amariyanna My’Angel Copeny’s name precedes her, although you have probably never heard it in full before. She prefers to go by Mari and is quick to remind people that absolutely no one calls her by her full name. In fact, the name that usually enters the room before Mari does is Little Miss Flint, a title she first earned in her childhood pageant days that followed her as she began raising global awareness about the Flint Water Crisis when she was just eight years old. When I enter the Ramsdell...