This morning, Mayor Brandon Scott announced his appointment of Acting City Solicitor Dana Moore as Baltimore’s first Chief Equity Officer, a cabinet-level position. According to the announcement, Moore “will work closely with the Mayor and Chief Administrative Officer to ensure city government operates through a framework of equity across all agencies, boards, and commissions. She will help city agencies shape their equity platforms, offer guidance, and ensure compliance with local equity laws, including those championed by Mayor Scott when he was a councilmember.”
This appointment fulfills one of the recommendations in the Solutions Summit Action Plan, the result of a year-long community-oriented Solution Summit project organized by OSI in 2016. Number 16 in the action plan calls on the city to “Establish an Office of Racial Equity within the mayor’s office that is charged with bringing racial equity to all city programs and removing systemic barriers to the fair and just distribution of resources, access, and opportunity.”
