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Veronica Cool, CEO of Cool & Associates, LLC and a member of the OSI-Baltimore board made the Baltimore Sun’s 25 Women to Watch in 2016 list. Cool, a native of the Dominican Republic with more than 20 years of experience in commercial banking, lending, financial analysis and sales management, has been focused on the challenges […]

In the most recent issue of the Unified Family Court Connection, Karen E. Webber, director of OSI’s Education and Youth Development program discusses progressive discipline practices and the restorative approach to student behavior in Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS) . Webber gives three main reasons – poverty, racism or racial threat, and overly punitive responses […]

Two OSI-Baltimore grantees, Baltimore Action Legal Team (BALT) and No Boundaries Coalition are taking an active role in the consent decree between Baltimore City Police (BPD) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) by releasing sets of recommendations. According to their press release, BALT’s recommendations, which were drafted by a group of volunteer lawyers, include an […]

OSI-Baltimore grantee  Holistic Life Foundation (HLF) has been getting quite a bit of attention recently, with articles featuring its afterschool program Holistic Me appearing on website like Upworthy, Vibe, GOOD Magazine, Woman’s Day, and Bustle. Started by HLF co-founders, brothers Ali and Atman Smith, with help from long-time friend Andrés Gonzalez, Holistic Me was developed […]

In the latest–and last–installment of WYPR’s series, On the Watch, “Cincinnati’s police reform story–a lesson for Baltimore?” reporter Mary Rose Madden looks at Cincinnati’s consent decree 15 years after it was implemented and asks if Baltimore might learn from that city’s process. In 2001, after a white office shot and killed an unarmed black teenager, […]

OSI Community Fellows Hannah Brancato (2015) and Jacqueline Robarge (2002) and OSI grantee Free State Justice were honored in City Paper’s Best of Baltimore issue. Brancato’s project FORCE Monument Quilt (Best Monument) aims to create a public monument of healing for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. Brancato co-founded FORCE a few years ago, […]

Tara Huffman, director of OSI-Baltimore’s Criminal and Juvenile Justice Program, is quoted in VICE magazine story, “How Cops Have Turned Baltimore into a Surveillance State,” which talks about community anger at revelations of the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) surveillance program days after the Department of Justice report on the BPD, and the relationship between police and communities […]

Check out the latest issue of Baltimore Style magazine to find a profile of 2015 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow, Meryam Bouadjemi’s most recent endeavor, Close Up Baltimore, a Humans of New York-style photo essay project in which Baltimoreans get to tell their stories. Recently, in an effort to “democratize the platform” the project decided to bring […]

On September 7, 2016, OSI-Baltimore, along with Centro de los Derechos del Migrante (CDM), the Maryland Immigrant Rights Coalition (MIRC), the Center for Progressive Reform (CPR) and the Public Justice Center (PJC) will co-host the Baltimore premiere of Farewell Ferris Wheel, an award-winning documentary that explores the experiences of Mexican “guest” workers in Maryland’s fair […]