Last week, Runner’s World magazine published a profile 2016 OSI Community Fellow Isa Olufemi and the two running groups he founded, the Poet Pride Run Club (PPRC), which he launched as part of his Fellowship, and Black Running Organization (BRO). PPRC, which Olufemi established at Laurence Dunbar High School, combines physical fitness, school pride, personal growth and college prep. He established BRO as a way to bring the Black communities of Baltimore together. “Once we run and sweat together, then we can build our relationships and collaborate,” he said.
Read “These Black Running Groups Are Striving to Unify Baltimore” here.
Learn more about PPRC in our Impact Series photo essay.