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This week, in the spirit of Bike to Work Day on May 19, On the Record with Sheilah Kast featured two biking projects started by OSI-Baltimore Community Fellows. First, she spoke to Liz Cornish, executive director of Bikemore, which was founded by 2012 Fellow, Chris Merriam, about the bikeability of Baltimore and what challenges cycling […]

FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, an organization co-founded by 2015 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow and current leadership council member, Hannah Brancato, will host two upcoming events as part of a series to bring attention to the criminalization of black women and transgender/gender non-conforming (TGNC) folks who are survivors of domestic or sexual violence. Saida Agostini, Chief Operation Officer […]

About 2,000 people in Maryland died of drug overdoses last year and the governor has declared a “State of Emergency.” In the coming weeks, OSI-Baltimore will host two important discussions about how to reduce the public health impact of this crisis, particularly on communities of color. Next Thursday, May 18th, OSI and the New Day […]

Susan Leviton, Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland School of Law and OSI-Baltimore advisory board member for 15 years, will be inducted into the Baltimore Jewish Hall of Fame (BJHOF) at a ceremony on May 24th. Leviton founded the statewide advocacy group Advocates for Children and Youth more than thirty years ago. She has […]

OSI-Baltimore is thrilled that Mayor Catherine Pugh today appointed Andre Davis, Senior Judge of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and an OSI-Baltimore Advisory Board member for 17 years, to be City Solicitor. Judge Davis’s thoughtfulness, superb reputation, and vast experience prepare him well to be an extremely strong advocate for the City. As a […]

On Friday, May 5, WYPR will host a Live Listen of a one hour special documentary, “Running from Cops: From the Streets to the Courts,” a collaboration between WYPR and the nationally syndicated radio program REVEAL at the Charles Theater at 1pm. The new documentary grew out of WYPR reporter Mary Rose Madden’s yearlong series, “On […]

Congratulations to 2014 Community Fellow Zina Makar, who has been named the Public Interest Lawyer of the Year by the Bar Association of Baltimore City! As part of her Fellowship, Makar worked with the Office of the Public Defender to represent poor defendants by employing the power of habeas corpus—a legal procedure that keeps governments from […]

Last week, the Baltimore Sun ran a powerful op-ed by the development director and workforce development coordinator for the Youth Empowered Society (YES Drop-In Center), an organization started by 2011 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Lara Law. The piece drove home the challenges that homeless young people face in building stable lives and praised employers like Starbucks, who […]

In February, OSI-Baltimore announced the launch of Baltimore’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program, a program first piloted in Seattle that re-directs people who would otherwise be booked for low-level drug offenses to treatment and other support services. OSI is the primary funder for the local program, which was developed in coordination with Behavioral Health […]