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On March 7, OSI-Baltimore and the Baltimore City Office of the Public Defender will present a FREE screening and discussion of Ava DuVernay’s landmark documentary “13th,” which looks at racial disparities in the criminal justice system as an ongoing form of slavery (officially outlawed by the 13th Amendment), as part of OSI’s Talking About Race […]

Listen to OSI-Baltimore’s Scott Nolen, director of our Drug Addiction Treatment Program, on the Marc Steiner show talking about Baltimore’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program. The program, officially launched in a press conference last week, aims to reduce the number of people jailed due to low-level drug offenses by diverting offenders to treatment and […]

Last month the Bay Journal ran a profile on Baltimore Green Space, a project started by OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Miriam Avins. The organization is a land trust that helps preserve and support community-managed open spaces and urban woodlands. The article talks specifically about the environmental benefits of their forest patch program, but the Baltimore Green […]

Recently, 2008 OSI Community Fellow, artist Ashley Minner, participated in an innovative theater experience called “Plunge: An Experiential Storytelling Lab.” Plunge has five separate story encounters in an immersive environment and one-on-one experiences for audiences (more on the experience here). Minner worked both as a “maker” helping other storytellers to create their installations, as well […]

2016 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow J.C. Faulk appears in the new documentary airing on PBS, “Accidental Courtesy.” The film follows Daryl Davis, an African-American who has spent the past 25 years seeking out members of the Ku Klux Klan in an effort to gain understanding. Davis’s journey takes him to Baltimore, where he sits down with Faulk, […]

OSI-Baltimore is deeply saddened by the passing of Clinton Bamberger, emeritus professor of the University of Maryland School of Law, OSI-Baltimore founding board member and emeritus trustee. As the Baltimore Sun wrote in its obituary for Bamburger: In recent years, Mr. Bamberger became the first board member named to the Open Society Institute-Baltimore, an organization […]

This week, Ronald Weich, the dean of University of Baltimore’s Law School, published an op-ed in the Baltimore Sun, “More work to be done on Md. bail reform,” in which he discussed the injustices of Maryland’s pretrial justice system which disproportionately keeps poor and minority citizens behind bars for minor crimes they have not yet […]

Read about the Baltimore Teacher Supply Swap, a project co-founded by OSI-Baltimore 2016 Community Fellow, Melissa Badeker, in a post this week in the Baltimore Fishbowl. The swap is a way for educators to both donate any unused supplies they’ve collected and shop for classroom materials at no cost. Badeker was inspired to start the […]

Listen to Dr. Leana Wen, Baltimore City Health Commissioner on NPR’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook, discuss the opioid crisis with Dr. Andrew Kolondy, co-director of opioid policy research at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University and others (discussion begins near the 12:56 mark, with Dr. Wen’s interview starts around […]