This week, Baltimore Fishbowl featured a profile of 2016 OSI Community Fellow Debbie Ramsey, detailing the former police officer’s work founding Unified Efforts, which seeks to broaden the horizons of young people in Penn North through after-school and summer programming. An excerpt: “If we can expose our children to new career paths, that will take […]
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OSI Director Diana Morris named to Johnny Olszewski’s Transition Team
Monday, December 17, 2018Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski, Jr. has named Open Society Institute – Baltimore Director Diana Morris co-chair of his Transition Team Education Committee, along with Edward Gilliss, a lawyer and partner at Royston, Mueller, McLean & Reid LLP, and a former chairman of the Baltimore County school board. “I’m eager to take on this challenge,” says […]
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WYPR on OSI’s 20th Anniversary, 2018 Fellows cohort
Thursday, December 13, 2018Yesterday, Sheilah Kast, host of WYPR’s On the Record, interviewed Open Society Institute Director Diana Morris and OSI Community Fellowships Director Pamela King about the organization’s 20th Anniversary and the 2018 cohort of OSI Community Fellows. Listen here. Kast then profiled 2018 Fellow Eric Fishel, whose project, Baltimore Foodparks, aims to convert some of the city’s […]
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OSI Fellow Munib Lohrasbi and Disability Rights Maryland to release report on confinement of women with disabilities
Tuesday, December 11, 2018On Friday, OSI Community Fellow Munib Lohrasbi will host a press conference at the office of OSI grantee Disability Rights Maryland (DRM) to announce the release of a report, “Segregation and Suicide: Confinement at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women.” Senator Susan Lee, Delegate Jazz Lewis, and Delegate-elect Sara Love join DRM Executive Director Robin […]
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OSI hosts second public health advocacy and leadership training
Tuesday, December 11, 2018This weekend in Easton, Maryland, Open Society Institute’s Addiction and Health Equity team hosted its second Advocacy and Leadership Training for people with lived experience with addiction. The first training took place last month in Frederick. The trainings are intended to help build the field of advocates around the state and increase the representation of people […]
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OSI Fellow David Hornbeck to speak at Be the Change forum on Kirwan Commission
Wednesday, December 05, 2018David Hornbeck, a 2012 OSI Community Fellow and the former schools superintendent in Maryland and Philadelphia, will speak at a Be the Change forum on the expected recommendations of the Kirwan Commission, which is set to overhaul education policy throughout the state. The forum is Thursday, December 6th, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at 2501 Manhattan […]
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One year later Safe City Baltimore having a big impact
Sunday, December 02, 2018Last month, Catalina Rodriguez-Lima, director of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MIMA), OSI-Baltimore’s partner in the Safe City Baltimore immigrant defense and education initiative, went to Vera Institute of Justice’s Detroit convening to report on the initiative’s progress a year after OSI Director Diana Morris joined Mayor Catherine Pugh and Rodriguez-Lima at City Hall to […]
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OSI mourns the loss of Suzanne Cohen
Tuesday, November 27, 2018Suzanne Cohen, a fierce advocate for equity and the arts and a longtime supporter and Advisory Board member at Open Society Institute, died last week at the age of 83. “All of us at OSI-Baltimore benefited from Sue’s talents, passion and many contributions,” said OSI-Baltimore director Diana Morris. “We will miss her.” Cohen supported many […]
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Report on Unger Project earns media attention
Tuesday, November 27, 2018A recent Justice Policy Institute report based on OSI-Baltimore’s five-year investment in providing reentry services to aging people being released from incarceration was the subject of a lengthy story in the Maryland Daily Record today. An excerpt: There is usually very little social support for people coming out of prison, according to Deputy Public Defender […]
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OSI-Baltimore director to go on four-month sabbatical
Monday, November 26, 2018This spring, Open Society Institute-Baltimore Director Diana Morris will go on a four-month sabbatical as part of Open Society Foundations’ (OSF) sabbatical program. The program allows all full-time employees who have worked for the organization for at least five years to apply and be considered for a four-month leave of absence to pursue projects of […]
