Longtime OSI-Baltimore partner and grantees Wide Angle Youth Media (WAYM), founded by 2001 OSI Community Fellow Gin Ferrara, is featured in this month’s Baltimore Magazine. WAYM provides free and accessible creative education resources to Baltimore City youth. Read the full article here.
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OSI Community Fellows Named to Baltimore Sun’s 25 Women to Watch
Tuesday, October 26, 2021This week, the Baltimore Sun published its annual list of 25 Women to Watch, including OSI-Baltimore Community Fellows Brittany Young and Brion Gill. Brittany Young, a 2018 fellow, started B-360, an organization that uses dirt bike culture to teach Baltimore City youth about STEM fields. Brittany and B-360 have been featured on the Kelly Clarkson […]
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Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition explains “why police reform is a harm reduction issue”
Friday, October 22, 2021Next week, longtime OSI partner and grantee Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition (BHRC) will be holding three educational events. On Wednesday, October 27th, part 2 of the fall series Why This is a Police Reform Issue will be held from 6-7:30 pm. Yanet Amanuel of the ACLU of Maryland and Rob Ferrell of Organizing Black will […]
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OSI Community Fellow Talks About Urban Backyard Composting on WYPR
Wednesday, October 13, 2021This week, 2019 OSI Community Fellow Marvin Hayes of the Baltimore Compost Collective spoke with WYPR’s Sheilah Kast’s On the Record podcast about backyard composting. Marvin explains how to build a personal system, what can and cannot be included in your personal system, as well as the difference between cold (passive) and hot (active) composting. […]
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Baltimore Children and Youth Fund launches Avis Ransom Institute
Wednesday, September 29, 2021This week, the Baltimore Children and Youth Fund (BCYF) launched The Avis Ransom Institute, a pilot program for youth leadership development in Baltimore City. The fund is named for activist and 2002 OSI Community Fellow, Avis Ransom. The program will train young people in Baltimore City to be effective leaders in their communities. Ransom, who […]
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OSI Fellow’s Featherstone Foundation announces 30 scholarship award recipients
Monday, September 27, 2021Each year, the William & Lanaea C. Featherstone Foundation, co-founded by 2013 OSI Community Fellow and Fellows Advisory Board co-chair Lanaea Featherstone, honors the high academic achievements of outstanding students from underrepresented communities across the state of Maryland. On September 24, the foundation announced their 30 Featherstone College Scholarship Award recipients. These students will receive […]
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OSI Community Fellow’s MomCares celebrates 5 years, Observes NICU awareness month
Friday, September 24, 2021To celebrate their 5th anniversary, MOMCares, the program started by 2019 Community Fellow Ana Rodney that provides postpartum doula services to single, low income women of color in the NICU, will hold a special celebration on Friday October 1 from 11am-2pm at Dovecote Café. MOMCares is also observing NICU Awareness month on September 29 with a […]
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OSI Community Fellows on WYPR
Monday, September 20, 2021This week, two OSI Baltimore Community Fellows, Janet Glover-Kerkvliet (2019) and Deborah Ramsey (2016) were featured on WYPR shows. First, Janet Glover-Kervliet is the founder of the Baltimore Job Hunters Support group, which offers support and free career counseling to Baltimore job seekers. She spoke to Sheilah Kast on On the Record about how the […]
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2018 OSI Baltimore Community Fellow in Baltimore Magazine
Wednesday, September 08, 2021This month’s Baltimore Magazine features 2018 OSI- Community Fellow, Graham Coreil-Allen, who uses public art to create traffic calming tools across Baltimore City. He works with residents, transportation officials, and traffic engineers to develop art that helps make streets safer and more accessible to everyone who uses them. This was the idea behind Coreil-Allen’s fellowship, […]
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OSI-Supported Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition Urges MD Lawmakers to Override Hogan Veto of SB 420
Tuesday, August 31, 2021In an op-ed for the Baltimore Brew, Rajani Gudlavalleti, director of mobilization with OSI-supported Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition urges Maryland lawmakers to override Governor Hogan’s veto of Senate Bill 420, which decriminalized the possession or distribution of drug paraphernalia. “At a time when Baltimore’s overdose rate is among the highest in the nation” wrote Gudlavalleti, […]
