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WYPR’s On the Record is currently featuring interviews with the 2018 cohort of OSI-Baltimore Community Fellows. Last week, Sheilah Kast spoke to Eric Fishel, whose project, Baltimore Foodparks, will convert vacant lots into mixed use parks using native edible plants for both human and bid communities.  Listen here. This week, Kast profiled Shelley Halstead and Fred […]

Earlier this week, OSI Community Fellows Lanaea C. Featherstone (2013) and Shantell Roberts (2017) attended the Daily Record’s “Leading Women” celebration at the Westin Annapolis. Both Featherstone and Roberts were named as Leading Women by the paper in October. Honorees, who were selected by previous Top 100 Women and Leading Women winners, were judged on […]

Recently, 2018 OSI Community Fellow, Brittany Young was interviewed by Forbes Magazine. In “Innovation is a Fancy Word for Survival,” Young talks about her project, B-360, which uses Baltimore’s dirt bike culture to not only introduce young people to education and career opportunities in the STEM fields but also to change perceptions of the sport. […]

2018 OSI Community Fellow, Aarti Sidhu, was recently featured on the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law website. Through her fellowship, Represent Youth: Baltimore School Justice Initiative – which will operate out of the University’s Clinical Law Program – Sidhu will directly represent Baltimore City Public School students who are facing suspensions […]

This week, the Baltimore Sun featured 2018 OSI Community Fellow Brittany Young and her project, B-360, which uses Baltimore’s dirt bike culture as a way to introduce young people to educational and career opportunities in STEM fields. Young, who is an elementary school technology instructor and a former chemical engineer, also hopes to change the perceptions of […]

This Saturday, November 17th, the Baltimore Museum of Art hosts the opening celebration for an exhibition of work from Get Your Life! (GYL!), a youth-run production company that was based out of 901 Arts, the community arts center led by 2010 OSI Community Fellow, Sarah Tooley. The GYL! exhibit, which features presents videos, costumes, props, and documents created […]

In 2017, the OSI-Baltimore Community Fellowships program launched the Community Fellows Network Strategic Advisory Group, which aims to strengthen connections among the 200 Fellows, discover and address shared needs, and explore ways to collaborate. The group formed five committees to advance its work: Skill Sharing, Healing, and Storytelling; public relations and Marketing; Thought Leadership; Mentorship […]

This week, OSI Advisory Board member Alicia Wilson was selected to a national list of influential young executives, according to the Baltimore Business Journal. Wilson, who is the vice president of community affairs and legal advisor for Sagamore Development was selected out of more than 1000 executives as one of the Business Journals’ Influencers: Rising […]