Last week, a group of about 20 OSI grantees, Fellows, and staff gathered at OSI’s office for a training led by the Op-Ed Project, whose mission is “to increase the range of voices and quality of ideas we hear in the world.”
Representatives from OSI grantees Advocates for Children and Youth, Restorative Response Baltimore, Baltimore Action Legal Team, Behavioral Health Leadership Institute, CASA, Power Inside, and the No Boundaries coalition, as well as OSI Fellows Eric Jackson, Munib Lohrasbi, and Aarti Sidhu participated in the training, which is intended to help advocates conceive of and write op-eds that will be published and advance their work. The training includes one to three months of mentorship with an Op-Ed Project Editor after the training.
Op-Ed Project Senior Facilitator Angela Wright-Shannon, who had an op-ed in the Washington Post last week, led the training.