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The challenges of learning and internship, whew! Where do I start? My name is Lashai Simms, I attend Baltimore City Community College and I’m currently in my sophomore year. The beginning of the spring semester was going perfectly fine. Being present in school every day, attending all my classes on time, and being social was […]

My name is Maya, and I am a senior at Baltimore City College. I will be most impacted by the decisions made about reopening schools, so I want to share how I feel about it. First, I believe it is foolish to open schools during a pandemic. When you think about schools—and I mean any […]

On Wednesday, August 12, Karen Webber, director of OSI’s Education and Youth Development program, and Wes Moore, author and CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation, join Councilman Zeke Cohen’s “Truth and Healing” conversation series, hosted by and Healing City Baltimore. This topic for this, the seventh episode in the series, is “Investing in Change: The […]

OSI-Baltimore board member Alicia Wilson is featured on the latest episode of Center Maryland’s podcast, The Conference Call with Damian O’Doherty, talking about her experiences as a community advocate, the lifelong influence of her mentor, and her work as the “connective tissue” between the Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Medical Center. Wilson, the Vice […]

OSI-Baltimore sadly notes the passing of Avis Ransom, a 2002 Community Fellow, whose program, Income and Equality for All, sought to engage low wage and unemployed citizens in the process of creating and implementing innovative workforce solutions including worker cooperatives to increase their economic stability. An anti-racism consultant and workshop facilitator for Baltimore Racial Justice […]

This Friday, June 19th, a wide range of local organizations will hold events and campaigns to mark Juneteenth, the oldest national commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States. But as OSI grantees Job Opportunities Task Force (JOTF), Out for Justice (OFJ) and the Baltimore Action Legal Team (BALT), explain on the Facebook […]

In October, OSI-Baltimore’s Education and Youth Development program hosted education advocates from the Global Campaign for Education – United States and the UN Special Repporteur, who wanted to learn more about the work OSI has been doing to integrate restorative practices in Baltimore City Schools.  Our guests from GCE-US thoughtfully reflected on the visit, which […]

Black Women Build-Baltimore, an organization started by 2018 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Shelley Halstead is featured this month in our Impact Photo Series. Halstead started the organization specifically to help black women gain skills to renovate and maintain homes and train them in carpentry, electrical, and plumbing, which will equip them to enter the construction sector–a […]