Recently, the Jewish Times featured 2009 OSI Community Fellow Ras Tre Subira and Olam Ubuntu, the youth group for Jewish and African-American teens, which he co-founded with Gabe Pickus.
Olam Ubuntu, which combines the Hebrew word for world, “Olam,” and the Nguni-Bantu word, “Ubuntu,” which means “I am because we are,” works with Beth Am Synagogue and other leaders in the surrounding Reservoir Hill neighborhood to bring Jewish and African Americans young people, ages 12 through 15, to interact, debate, and share ideas.
During his fellowship, Subira established The Griot’s Eye, a youth leadership and community development program in the Park Heights community that fuses media technology with cultural awareness.
