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The 2016 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellows cohort gathered at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School this morning to learn from the experiences of Fellows Isa Olufemi and Katie Miller. Olufemi, who uses running with students in the Poets Pride Run Club as a vehicle for personal growth, community-building, and college prep, talked about his experiences working with school […]

On Tuesday, Public Defender and OSI-Baltimore Leadership Council member Todd Oppenheim held a Bail Info Session at the Motor House in Station North, hosted by Maryland Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance. Participating in the conversation along with Oppenheim were Caryn York, leader of bail-reform advocacy group Coalition for a Safe and Just Maryland (Open […]

This is Anderson Peraza, a 10-year-old student at East Baltimore’s Hampstead Hill Academy. On March 9, Anderson’s dad Jesus Peraza dropped him off at school like he did every day. On his way back home, Jesus was stopped by Immigration Control Enforcement (ICE) agents to be deported to Honduras, a country he fled ten years […]

This morning OSI-Baltimore joined other local community groups, organizers, and students at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (Poly) to launch Hidden Voices: Illuminating Baltimore’s Secrets, an innovative project based on artist Frank Warren’s PostSecret series that will encourage people to share their secrets on anonymous postcards. Pat Bernstein, a local philanthropists who recently wrote a powerful op-ed in […]

Last night, in collaboration with the New Day Campaign, OSI-Baltimore sponsored a discussion on safe injection facilities (SIFs) as a public health strategy. Sarah Evans (above, second from left), a senior program manager with the Open Society Foundation’s Public Health Program, talked about her experiences as the coordinator of Vancouver’s Insite, North America’s first and […]

OSI-Baltimore is thrilled that Mayor Catherine Pugh today appointed Andre Davis, Senior Judge of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and an OSI-Baltimore Advisory Board member for 17 years, to be City Solicitor. Judge Davis’s thoughtfulness, superb reputation, and vast experience prepare him well to be an extremely strong advocate for the City. As a […]

Several OSI-Baltimore Community Fellows will be involved in events around town tonight: Tonight at 5:30 pm, 2016 Fellow LaMarr Shields, who held a book signing last night, will host a community discussion and screening of the short-subject documentary “Beyond Stereotypes: Redefining Images of Young Men of Color,” which he coordinated with 2014 Community Fellow Brian […]

Scott Nolen, director of OSI-Baltimore’s Drug Addiction Treatment program, joined Kevin Lindamood, executive director of Healthcare for the Homeless, for a presentation as part of yesterday’s Health Lab at Light City on innovative approaches to homelessness and addiction. Nolen underlined the extent of the addiction crisis by pointing out that 52,000 Americans died of drug overdoses […]