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Next Saturday, Karen Webber, director of OSI-Baltimore’s Education and Youth Development program will join a panel discussion about restorative justice at the Maryland Lynching Memorial Project’s conference, Lynching in Maryland: The Journey from Truth to Reconciliation. The conference, at Morgan State University from 9am to 12:30pm, costs $16.19 per ticket and is free for Morgan […]

This week, the website Civil Eats posted a story, “Baltimore is at the Vanguard of a National Black Vegan Movement,” highlighting the work of several OSI-Baltimore Community Fellows and others working on urban agriculture, food rescue, food sovereignty, and related projects. Among those mentioned are 2017 Fellow Eric Jackson, “servant-director” of the Black Yield Institute […]

Recently, Bmore Art magazine profiled 2008 OSI Community Fellow Ashley Minner. In a wide-ranging and candid interview, Minner, whose fellowship used art as a tool to engage Native American youth in a community-based arts program, talked about everything from her PhD project “The Reservation” and her position as a professor in UMBC’s American Studies department […]

Join Writers in Baltimore Schools, an organization founded by 2008 OSI Community Fellow Patrice Hutton, as it celebrates 10 years  of providing in-school, after-school and summer creative writing workshops to Baltimore City middle and high school students. The celebration, which will take place on December 8, will feature performances and the premiere of a film […]

The October issue of Baltimore Magazine feature two programs founded by OSI-Baltimore Fellows: The profile of The Book Thing of Baltimore, founded by 2000 OSI Fellow Russell Wattenberg (above left), highlights the plans of new executive director Bonnie Hoppa. The profile of Next One Up, founded by 2013 Fellow Matt Hanna (above right), marks the organization’s […]

2018 OSI Community Fellow, Graham Coreil-Allen has been working with residents in the Druid Hill and Reservoir Hill neighborhoods to organize Arches & Access,a temporary light art project and community parade celebrating the connections between surrounding communities and Druid Hill Park. The event will take place on Sunday, November 3, 5:30-9pm. As part of his […]

BALTIMORE—This week, Community Data Fellows from Black Leaders Organizing for Change, CASA, Baltimore Votes, and the No Boundaries Coalition began a city-wide effort to survey 10,000 to 12,000 Baltimore City residents as part of a collaborative project spearheaded by Open Society Institute-Baltimore (OSI) called Blueprint for Baltimore:2020 and Beyond. The survey, available online at osibaltimore.org/blueprint, […]

Last week, OSI-Baltimore’s Education and Youth Development program hosted Open Society Foundations education advocates from around the world and the UN Special Rapporteur, who were looking to learn more about OSI’s work integrating Restorative Practices and mindfulness into the Baltimore City Public School system and the dramatic results of doing so. In addition to discussions […]

On Monday, OSI-Baltimore hosted a delegation of Nicaraguan human rights advocates who were looking to learn more about OSI’s work to increase civic engagement, including the Blueprint for Baltimore project as part of the Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program. Among those in attendance were representatives from the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy, Building […]