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Governing Magazine recently published its list of Public Officials of the Year, which included Baltimore Health Commissioner, Dr. Leana Wen. From the publication, “Every year since 1994, Governing has honored individual state and local government officials for outstanding accomplishment by naming them Public Officials of the Year.” Wen, the profile noted, who took office only […]

This week, the Baltimore Sun has a great feature on the Youth Empowered Society (YES Drop-In Center), an organization started by 2011 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Lara Law and currently led by Blair Franklin, a former program associate with OSI’s Community Fellowships & Initiatives. The article also quotes Terry Hickey, the director of the Mayor’s Office […]

This week, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee came to Johns Hopkins University to hold hearings on the opioid crisis at the behest of the committee’s ranking Democrat, Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings. The staff of OSI-Baltimore’s Drug Addiction Treatment program briefed Cummings’ staff in advance of the hearing. Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, chair […]

WYPR’s On the Record with Sheliah Kast continued the tradition of featuring the latest cohort of OSI Community Fellows. The first three 2017 Fellows were featured this week starting with Ryan Flanigan, whose project, the Remington Community Land Trust, aims to create affordable home-buying access for low-income residents. Listen here. Kim Loper started Youth in […]

OSI Baltimore’s Education and Youth Development (EYD) team recently participated in Open Society Foundations National and Regional Education Strategy Meeting in Paris, France. The conference, which brought together national and regional foundations from all over the OSF network and grew out of a week-long course at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest on inclusion of […]