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Last week, the Daily Record announced its 2021 Leadership in Law awardees. Among the honorees are 2018 OSI Community Fellow, Aarti Sidhu, and Andre Davis, retired U.S. Circuit Judge and OSI-Baltimore Advisory Board member. Sidhu, who is currently a Staff Attorney with the Education Unit at Disability Rights Maryland working specifically on education issues faced […]

On Sunday, May 9, the Queer Crisis Response Unit (QCRU), founded by 2020 OSI Community Fellow E.V. Yost, will hold its first community roundtable to discuss developing a trans-led, community care network response alternative to 9-1-1 in Baltimore City to support TLGBQIA+ who are experiencing crises. Learn more here. Additionally, QCRU is accepting applications until […]

Earlier this week, 2018 OSI Community Fellow, Brittany Young, appeared on the Kelly Clarkson show to talk about her organization, B360, which uses dirt bike culture to teach STEM skills as well as dirt bike riding safety for young people in Baltimore. The organization trains former street riders over the age of 16, trains them […]

On Friday, OSI Director Danielle Torain sat down to talk to Center for Urban Families CEO Joe Jones, who is also Vice Chair of OSI’s Advisory Board, about their lives as Baltimore natives working to improve the lives of fellow Baltimore residents. The conversation, which you can watch below, was part of The Journey Home’s […]

Last week, OSI’s Tara Huffman participated in a Community of Practice conversation hosted by Healthcare for the Homeless on the topic, “Reimagining ​Restorative Justice through the Lens of Eliminating Structural Racism.” Other panelists included Baltimore City Police Department Lieutenant Colonel Monique Brown, Baltimore City Councilman John T. Bullock, and Morgan State University Associate Professor Kevin […]

This week, 2019 OSI Baltimore Community Fellow, Ana Temple Rodney and her organization, MOMCares, are featured in a campaign highlighting the Black maternal health crisis that can be seen on the Baltimore LED Art Board (both Rodney and her son make an appearance!). Rodney established MOMCares to provide post-partum doula care for under-supported mothers with […]

This week, 2019 OSI Community Fellow Marvin Hayes was featured in the Guardian’s special reporting series, “America’s dirty divide” (supported by Open Society Foundations), a series that examines the country’s environmental inequalities, along with other environmental justice advocates who are working to shut down the Bresco waste incinerator in South Baltimore. In the video, Hayes, […]

Last week, WJZ featured 2019 Community Fellow Marvin Hayes and his organization, the Baltimore Compost Collective. Located in the Brooklyn-Curtis Bay area of South Baltimore, the Baltimore Compost Collective aims to serve a community that otherwise may not be able to get fresh vegetables. Hayes and his crew of volunteers pick up food waste from […]

This morning, WYPR’s On the Record with Sheilah Kast hosted Ricky Morris and Samantha Kerr of Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition and the BRIDGES Coalition, both OSI-Baltimore grantees, to discuss their experiences providing harm reduction services during the COVID-19 pandemic and the prospect of establishing overdose prevention sites in Baltimore. Listen here. There are currently two […]