On Tuesday, Public Defender and OSI-Baltimore Leadership Council member Todd Oppenheim held a Bail Info Session at the Motor House in Station North, hosted by Maryland Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance. Participating in the conversation along with Oppenheim were Caryn York, leader of bail-reform advocacy group Coalition for a Safe and Just Maryland (Open […]
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Baltimore Brew Profiles OSI Fellow’s Baltimore Teacher Supply Swap
Wednesday, June 14, 2017This week, the Baltimore Brew featured the Baltimore Teacher Supply Swap, a project co-founded by 2016 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Melissa Badeker. Badeker and co-founder Kathleen Williams were inspired to start the swap after realizing they were not the only teachers who had unused and leftover supplies that they no longer wanted or could no longer […]
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Panelists discuss the role of race in drug policy at Talking About Race forum
Friday, June 09, 2017Last night, OSI-Baltimore co-hosted the latest in our Talking About Race series, Harm Reduction and Communities of Color with the University of Baltimore’s College of Public Affairs (CPA). After a welcome by CPA dean Roger E. Hartley, panelists Kassandra Frederique, New York State Director at the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), Samuel Roberts, Associate Professor of History at […]
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OSI Fellow leads Pretrial Justice Clinic through its first year
Friday, June 09, 2017The University of Baltimore Law School’s Pretrial Justice Clinic (PTJC), led by 2014 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Zina Makar, recently published a report detailing findings and recommendations from its inaugural year. Makar, who was also on OSI’s Solutions Summit Justice planning group, was tapped as co-director of the clinic when it was established in August 2016. PTJC works with […]
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Talking About Race panelists appear on Marc Steiner Show
Wednesday, June 07, 2017Yesterday, as a preview to OSI-Baltimore’s next Talking About Race event, Harm Reduction and Communities of Color, Marc Steiner spoke to panelists Kassandra Frederique, New York State Director at the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) and Dr. Samuel Roberts, Associate Professor of History and Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University, and Scott Nolen, director […]
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OSI Fellow’s BYKE project featured in Baltimore Sun, WJZ
Wednesday, June 07, 2017Rhodes with shop regular, Anthony Curbeam. This week, the Baltimore Sun featured a story on the Baltimore Youth Kinetic Energy Collective (BYKE), a project started by 2015 OSI Community Fellow, Chavi Rhodes. WJZ also ran a feature on Rhodes and her project. Rhodes noticed many of the young people who were trying to use DIY […]
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2016 Fellow’s Project, Unified Efforts, Inc. Announces Free Summer Youth Violence Prevention Program
Tuesday, June 06, 2017Unified Efforts, Inc. a violence prevention project started by 2016 Community Fellow Debbie Ramsey,recently announced its summer youth violence prevention program in the Penn-North Community. The program, which focuses on out-of-school time, will provide free summer activities for West Baltimore/Penn North students, including free indoor swimming lessons, cooking for nutrition classes, art, music, introduction to […]
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Seeking Solutions: Audacious Thinking Spring 2017
Friday, June 02, 2017Read the Spring 2017 issue of OSI-Baltimore’s newsletter, Audacious Thinking. “Seeking Solutions” recaps the 2016 Solutions Summit, introduces readers to OSI’s youngest donor and celebrates 20 years of Community Fellowships. Check out the new issue here.
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Health Commissioner Wen makes overdose antidote available without training
Friday, June 02, 2017This week, Baltimore City Health Commissioner Leana Wen signed a new standing order to allow residents to get naloxone, the opioid overdose reversal drug, without getting trained first. Wen’s order addresses the Heroin and Opioid Prevention Effort (HOPE) and Treatment Act of 2017, which included the Overdose Prevention Act, enabling all citizens to access naloxone, […]
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OSI-Supported Bard High School Early College Sees First Graduating Class
Friday, June 02, 2017Bard student Jahsol Drummond. Photo courtesy of the Baltimore Sun. This week,Bard High School Early College (BHSEC) in East Baltimore celebrates its first graduating class since opening two years ago. Established with the help of an OSI-Baltimore grant to the Fund for Educational Excellence, BHSEC allows Baltimore City students to graduate in four years with both […]
