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This week, Forbes featured OSI-Baltimore Advisory Board member Alicia Wilson, who is the senior vice president of impact investments and senior legal counsel for Port Covington Impact Investments.  The piece profiled not only Wilson’s work mentoring Baltimore City youth but also her position as a black, female attorney, and how that informs her desire to make […]

Today, The Baltimore Sun published an op-ed by OSI Director Diana Morris and Tara Huffman, director of OSI’s Criminal and Juvenile Justice Program, “Baltimore must prioritize police reform,” The key to reducing crime and protecting public safety, they write, lies in creating trust between residents and law enforcement, a roadmap for which can be found […]

This week, the Baltimore Sun featured ShareBaby, an organization that provides diapers, clothing, and other basic goods to organizations that work with families in need such as House of Ruth, Sarah’s Hope and the International Rescue Committee (IRC)Baby Pantry. 2016 OSI Community Fellow Eliseba Osore is ShareBaby’s program manager. As part of her fellowship, she worked to […]

Recently 2017 OSI Community Fellow, Ausar Daniels was featured on WYPR’s Life in the Balance to talk about helping communities in Baltimore through urban agriculture and other health initiatives. Daniels founded the Greater Mondawmin Empowerment Project (GMEP) to combat food insecurity and the negative effects associated with limited or no access to healthy, affordable food. […]

Recently, Baltimore Green Space, an organization started by 2007 OSI Community Fellow Miriam Avins, joined with Fairwood Forest and Glenham-Belhar Community Association to preserve Fairwood Forest, the first community forest to be preserved in Baltimore City. Baltimore Green Space was able to negotiate protections for the area in a land trust. Learn more here. Avins […]

On Tuesday, October 9th, the Baltimore Police Department, the BPD Monitoring Team, and the Department of Justice will be hold the third quarterly public hearing about the Consent Decree.  The hearing, at the Edward A. Garmatz U.S. District Courthouse, 101 W. Lombard Street, Courtroom 1A, begins at 10am. In addition to general updates on the […]

This week, WJZ featured 2014 OSI Community Fellow Van Brooks and the Safe Alternative Foundation for Education (SAFE) Center he founded. SAFE recently received a $5,000 grant from the Society for Science and the Public to support SAFE’s science-oriented summer programs. Brooks developed SAFE to promote education and life skills for youth from the Franklin […]

This week, the Daily Record announced its 2018 VIP list which included 2014 OSI Community Fellow Van Brooks and 2017 Fellow Shantell Roberts. These awards recognize successful professionals in Maryland under 40. They are selected on the basis of professional accomplishments, community service, and commitment to change. Brooks used his fellowship to develop the “Yards […]

Students from Writers in Baltimore Schools (WBS), the program 2008 OSI Community Fellow Patrice Hutton founded, worked with Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars in this semester’s Fiction & Social Engagement course to explore how disparate life experiences can inspire and inform our fiction. Students will showcase their work at a reading tonight, Monday, April 23 at Bird in […]

This week, the Guardian published a great article about Baltimore, “Gentrify or die? Inside a university’s controversial plan for Baltimore,” which examines the redevelopment work being done by Johns Hopkins University in and around the medical campus in the neighborhood formerly known as “Middle East.” In it, 2012 Community Fellow, Lawrence Brown, who is currently […]