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This week, a stunning new exhibit, Slavery, The Prison Industrial Complex: Photographs by Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick, co-presented with OSI-Baltimore, opens at the Baltimore Museum of Art. For more than 30 years, Calhoun and McCormick, photographers who were both born and raised in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward and were previously Open Society Foundations […]

This weekend, OSI-Baltimore’s Addiction and Health Equity Program hosted its fourth Advocacy and Leadership Training convening, this time in Salisbury, Maryland. The convenings are intended to help build the field of advocates around the state and increase the representation of people with lived experience with addiction in policy conversations. Scott Nolen, director of OSI’s Addiction […]

This week, in “The Radical Teachers’ Movement Comes to Baltimore,” The Nation tells the story behind the Baltimore Movement of Rank-and-File Educators (BMORE), the social justice-oriented caucus of teachers that surprised many when its leader, Diamonté Brown, defeated nine-time incumbent Marrietta English in an election to determine who would lead the Baltimore Teachers Union. As […]

Patrick Gaspard, the president of Open Society Foundations, was a guest on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday. Gaspard, seated next to former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, urged action to address climate shifts in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador that are driving migrants north to Mexico and the U.S. border. Watch the […]

Over the weekend, people from all over the country came to the National Mall in Washington D.C. to see the Monument Quilt, a collection of 3,000 stories from survivors of rape and abuse. “By stitching our stories together, we are creating and demanding public space to heal,” reads the text on the Monument Quilt’s website. […]

Tomorrow, Baltimore-based group FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, an organization co-founded by 2015 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Hannah Brancato, will blanket the National Mall with 3,000 stories from survivors of sexual and intimate partner violence. Open Society Foundations is proud to be the premier sponsor for the Monument Quilt.  The Washington Post has an extensive story about the […]

Ava Pipitone, a 2018 OSI Community Fellow and founder of HostHome, is featured in Baltimore magazine’s June cover story on the “Faces of Pride.” HostHome is an emergency LGBTQ housing network. “Trans people have been doing the work,” she says in the magazine. “The legal support, the jail support, the emotional community support. And it’s […]

This week, Forbes Magazine features a profile on Eddie C. Brown, CEO and founder of Brown Capital Management and OSI-Baltimore Advisory Board member. The Oracle of Apopka chronicles Brown’s beginnings in a small town in Florida to his rise as T. Rowe Price’s first African American portfolio manager in 1973, to the successful launch of […]

Veronica Cool, CEO of Cool & Associates LLC., and longtime OSI-Baltimore Advisory Board member, has been recognized by DC-based Hispanic newspaper El Tiempo Latino’ Powermeter 100, “a testimony to the influence that these 100 powerful individuals have had in the Hispanic community and the community at large.” The distinction is shared with individuals like Supreme […]

This Friday, Baltimore Under Ground Science Space (BUGSS) will host 2018 OSI Community Fellow Eric Fishel for “Urban Ecology for Community Engagement.” Fishel will talk about his fellowship, Baltimore Foodparks, which is a project that aims to improve vacant lots in Southeast Baltimore, conduct scientific research, and help conserve Baltimore’s greenspace and wildlife all while […]