This week, Johns Hopkins University announced a $150 million gift from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to establish an interdisciplinary center for public discourse and the exchange of ideas. In ancient Greece, the agora was the center of civic life; likewise, Hopkins hopes the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute will serve a similar purpose—to foster civic […]
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Fellows Gather to Learn From Isa Olufemi and Katie Miller
Friday, June 23, 2017The 2016 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellows cohort gathered at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School this morning to learn from the experiences of Fellows Isa Olufemi and Katie Miller. Olufemi, who uses running with students in the Poets Pride Run Club as a vehicle for personal growth, community-building, and college prep, talked about his experiences working with school […]
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OSI Hosts Soft Skills Training Workshop
Tuesday, June 20, 2017Today, OSI-Baltimore’s Education and Youth Development program hosted a soft skills training workshop for educators. The workshop, led by Jennifer Penn-Feliciano and Vanessa Proetto, two educators from East Baltimore’s Achievement Academy High School, provided curriculum materials to help facilitators teach high-school-aged people in Baltimore City the skills necessary to get and keep a job. Soft […]
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Public Defender Hosts Bail Info Session
Friday, June 16, 2017On Tuesday, Public Defender and OSI-Baltimore Leadership Council member Todd Oppenheim held a Bail Info Session at the Motor House in Station North, hosted by Maryland Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance. Participating in the conversation along with Oppenheim were Caryn York, leader of bail-reform advocacy group Coalition for a Safe and Just Maryland (Open […]
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Baltimore Brew Profiles OSI Fellow’s Baltimore Teacher Supply Swap
Wednesday, June 14, 2017This week, the Baltimore Brew featured the Baltimore Teacher Supply Swap, a project co-founded by 2016 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Melissa Badeker. Badeker and co-founder Kathleen Williams were inspired to start the swap after realizing they were not the only teachers who had unused and leftover supplies that they no longer wanted or could no longer […]
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Panelists discuss the role of race in drug policy at Talking About Race forum
Friday, June 09, 2017Last night, OSI-Baltimore co-hosted the latest in our Talking About Race series, Harm Reduction and Communities of Color with the University of Baltimore’s College of Public Affairs (CPA). After a welcome by CPA dean Roger E. Hartley, panelists Kassandra Frederique, New York State Director at the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), Samuel Roberts, Associate Professor of History at […]
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OSI Fellow leads Pretrial Justice Clinic through its first year
Friday, June 09, 2017The University of Baltimore Law School’s Pretrial Justice Clinic (PTJC), led by 2014 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Zina Makar, recently published a report detailing findings and recommendations from its inaugural year. Makar, who was also on OSI’s Solutions Summit Justice planning group, was tapped as co-director of the clinic when it was established in August 2016. PTJC works with […]
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Talking About Race panelists appear on Marc Steiner Show
Wednesday, June 07, 2017Yesterday, as a preview to OSI-Baltimore’s next Talking About Race event, Harm Reduction and Communities of Color, Marc Steiner spoke to panelists Kassandra Frederique, New York State Director at the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) and Dr. Samuel Roberts, Associate Professor of History and Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University, and Scott Nolen, director […]
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OSI Fellow’s BYKE project featured in Baltimore Sun, WJZ
Wednesday, June 07, 2017Rhodes with shop regular, Anthony Curbeam. This week, the Baltimore Sun featured a story on the Baltimore Youth Kinetic Energy Collective (BYKE), a project started by 2015 OSI Community Fellow, Chavi Rhodes. WJZ also ran a feature on Rhodes and her project. Rhodes noticed many of the young people who were trying to use DIY […]
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2016 Fellow’s Project, Unified Efforts, Inc. Announces Free Summer Youth Violence Prevention Program
Tuesday, June 06, 2017Unified Efforts, Inc. a violence prevention project started by 2016 Community Fellow Debbie Ramsey,recently announced its summer youth violence prevention program in the Penn-North Community. The program, which focuses on out-of-school time, will provide free summer activities for West Baltimore/Penn North students, including free indoor swimming lessons, cooking for nutrition classes, art, music, introduction to […]
