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This week, the Baltimore Sun published an op-ed by OSI’s Addiction and Health Equity director, Scott Nolen who argues that “denying harm reduction services to people who use drugs is no different than denying seatbelts to people who drive.” In “The ‘seatbelt’ approach to the opioid crisis,” Nolen points out that with more than 70,000 […]

Koli Tengella, an educator and 2001 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow, pictured above left with his students, announced that he will write and direct a short film entitled “Lesson Plan” in partnership with the Baltimore City Health Department. Parents of students in Tengella’s Positive Social Change Theater Program will perform with their children. As part of his […]

In a staff editorial, “Maryland should release more elderly inmates,” the Baltimore Sun Editorial Board used the work of the OSI-supported Unger Clinic to suggest that the state should ramp up efforts to release aging prisoners. “Many of the Ungers were serving life sentences yet have lived non-criminal lives since being released,” they wrote before […]

Tara Huffman, director of OSI-Baltimore’s Criminal and Juvenile Justice Program, recently joined fellow members in the inaugural cohort of Justice Funders‘ Harmony Initiative – East. As its website explains, “the Harmony Initiative was launched in 2015 to support professional grantmakers in strengthening their philanthropic practice. The Harmony Initiative provides cutting edge tools, training and knowledge […]

2018 OSI Community Fellow Brittany Young talked about her fellowship program, B-360 Baltimore, in the Summer issue of Diversity In Action magazine. B-360 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. Young was also featured […]

Last week, OSI grantee Baltimore Action Legal Team (BALT) joined other organizations, including Open Justice Baltimore (OJB) and the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP) at Georgetown University Law Center to challenge the rule of prohibiting the publication of court recordings. The challenge stems from a court order filed by local journalist Justine Barron […]

Eddie Conway of the Real News Network interviewed dancer, actress, educator, storyteller, and 2004 OSI Community Fellow Maria Broom in a feature posted online today and included in full below. The interview opens with a clip from The Wire, in which Broom played Marla Daniels. As part of her Fellowship, Maria established the Dance Girls […]

This week, the Daily Record announced its Influential Marylanders list; among the honorees is OSI Advisory Board member Alicia Wilson. Wilson is Vice President of Community Affairs and a legal advisor at Sagamore Development Company. Wilson previously appeared on the Baltimore Business Journal’s “National Influencers: Rising Stars” list, and was named in the Journal’s annual […]

Recently, 2017 OSI Community Fellow Amy Tenney was featured in Immaculata Magazine, the alumni publication for Immaculata University, Tenney’s alma mater. Tenney’s fellowship, Healing and Community Integration Through Music: Refugees and Other Vulnerable Immigrants Program was designed to provide music therapy for those who are adjusting to life in the United States.   Tenney is […]