Each year, WYPR’s On The Record features interviews with the latest cohort of OSI-Baltimore Community Fellows. This year, fellow Ana Rodney kicked off the 2019 cohort in December when she spoke to host Sheilah Kast about her organization, MOMCares, which offers postpartum doula support to low-income, single women of color in the NICU. Listen here. […]
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OSI Sponsors Decriminalizing Disability Symposium
Wednesday, December 11, 2019On November 21-22, OSI-Baltimore staff Tara Huffman and Michael Camlin attended the OSI-sponsored symposium, “Decriminalizing Disability: The Case for Crisis Response Services,” hosted by Disability Rights Maryland. The first day included presentations from innovative and effective crisis response and behavioral health programs around the country that shared information about their models and how they overcame […]
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Writers in Baltimore Schools celebrates 10 years
Wednesday, December 11, 2019On Sunday, December 8, Writers in Baltimore Schools, an organization founded by 2008 OSI Community Fellow Patrice Hutton, celebrated 10 years of empowering the voices of students in Baltimore City Schools. Hutton founded WBS to offer provide creative writing opportunities for Baltimore City middle and high school students. In her remarks, Hutton spoke of her […]
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OSI Community Fellow Honored at Fusion Partnerships’ Founders Day
Friday, November 22, 2019Recently, Lauren Goodsmith was honored with the Impact Partner Award at Fusion Partnerships’ “Founders Day” event for her work with the Intercultural Counseling Connection, an organization that provides therapeutic care and counseling to refugees and forced migrants in Maryland who have experienced trauma due to conflict, torture and other types of harm. Goodsmith founded the […]
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OSI Community Fellow Lady Brion to Host Baltimore Kings of Poetry
Wednesday, November 13, 2019On Sunday, November 17, Lady Brion, 2015 OSI fellow and acting director of Baltimore’s Pennsylvania Avenue Black Arts District, will present “Baltimore Kings of Poetry,” a spoken word poetry event featuring Lamar Anthony Hill, Slangston Hughes, Black Chakra, Rasheed Copeland, and Archie The Messager and hosted by Nova Gray. Tickets and more information can be […]
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OSI Community Fellow’s Share Baby Holds BINGO for a Cause
Wednesday, November 13, 2019On Wednesday, November 13, ShareBaby, an organization that provides diapers, clothing, and other basic goods to organizations that work with families in need founded by 2016 OSI Community Fellow Eliseba Osore, will host Bingo For a Cause at the Charles Theater. Additional information here. Proceeds to benefit ShareBaby.
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OSI Fellow’s Unified Efforts publishes youth-created fall newsletter
Friday, November 08, 2019Unified Efforts, an organization founded by 2016 OSI Community Fellow Debbie Ramsey to address summer learning loss for Baltimore City students, recently released their fall 2019 issue of I Belong Magazine. The magazine offers a forum for young people in Baltimore to “engage with one another through written expression without judgement from adults.” The magazine […]
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Wide Angle Youth Media to hold annual exhibition and screening
Friday, November 08, 2019Wide Angle Youth Media, an OSI-Baltimore grantee founded by 2001 OSI Community Fellow Gin Ferrara, will hold its annual exhibition and screening, Listen. Amplify. Repeat. at Maryland Institute College of Art on Thursday, November 14. The event will include an exhibition of photographs and design projects, premier new films and commentary from youth presenters as […]
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OSI Community Fellow Ashley Minner profiled in Bmore Art
Wednesday, November 06, 2019Recently, Bmore Art magazine profiled 2008 OSI Community Fellow Ashley Minner. In a wide-ranging and candid interview, Minner, whose fellowship used art as a tool to engage Native American youth in a community-based arts program, talked about everything from her PhD project “The Reservation” and her position as a professor in UMBC’s American Studies department […]
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OSI Community Fellow’s Writers in Baltimore Schools Celebrates 10 Years
Wednesday, November 06, 2019Join Writers in Baltimore Schools, an organization founded by 2008 OSI Community Fellow Patrice Hutton, as it celebrates 10 years of providing in-school, after-school and summer creative writing workshops to Baltimore City middle and high school students. The celebration, which will take place on December 8, will feature performances and the premiere of a film […]
