This week, the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute announced its 2021 cohort of Bunting Neighborhood Leadership Fellows, which includes Atiya Wells, a 2020 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow and Lamontre Randall, a member of the B’More Invested Grant Advisory Team.
Wells runs The Baltimore Living in Sustainable Simplicity (BLISS) Meadows project, a nature center and educational space in Northeast Baltimore where she encourages Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color to explore nature.
The B’More Invested initiative is a project that explores new approaches to community-based grantmaking, Randall is a Community Advisor for the project.
The Bunting Neighborhood Leadership Program is a training-based initiative that aims to enhance the capacity of Baltimore’s community activists with the knowledge, skills, and tools to be transformative leaders and improve the trajectory of health in their communities.