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Lauren Abramson Lauren Abramson is a psychologist who has worked with children and families in communities for the past 20 years. She is currently Founder and Executive Director of the Community Conferencing Center in Baltimore, Maryland and is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. Lauren focused attention on Community Conferencing in Baltimore in 1995, and advances conferencing as a means of building social capital and collective efficacy on many levels, including 1) empowering individuals and communities to resolve their own conflicts and crimes, 2) providing a meaningful alternative to the criminal justice system, and 3) mobilizing the existing untapped human assets in communities. The work of the Community Conferencing Center is groundbreaking for its use and success in highly distressed communities in a large American city. Everyone is enthusiastically invited to the Community Conferencing Center’s 10 Years! Celebration on October 2, 2008. Born and raised in Detroit, Lauren is “imprinted” on Rust Belt cities, and appreciates Baltimore for the big small-town vibe that it offers and the soulfulness of the city and its people. She is an avid sailor, and recently completed her first ocean voyage from Charleston to Baltimore. |
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Dr. Andrés Alonso Speaking no English when he arrived in the United States from Cuba with his parents at age 12, Andrés Alonso attended the Union City, New Jersey public schools, where he found many mentors before graduating Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University in 1979. He went on to earn a J.D. from Harvard Law School and worked at the New York City law firm of Hughes, Hubbard & Reed before changing course to become an educator. From 1987 to 1998, Dr. Alonso taught self-contained, emotionally disturbed special education adolescents and English language learners in Newark, New Jersey, where he was also a staff developer, program coordinator and mentor teacher, writing the bilingual special education guide and helping to write the ESL curriculum for the school district. Dr. Alonso was selected to Harvard University’s elite Urban Superintendents Program in 1998, where he focused on urban education. He was awarded a Doctorate in Education, with a concentration in Administration, Social Policy and Planning, in June 2006. Dr. Alonso worked at the New York City Department of Education from 2003-2007, working closely with the Chancellor in planning and implementing the reform of the largest educational system in the nation. As Chief of Staff for Teaching and Learning, Dr. Alonso was responsible for helping manage the restructuring of the 40 disconnected districts serving over one million students into ten instructional regions, introducing a core curriculum, guiding schools in implementing supports for a new promotional policy, restructuring hundreds of schools, and leading the reshaping of special education and bilingual education as part of the New York City Children First reforms. As Deputy Chancellor for Teaching and Learning, Dr. Alonso led a team of over one hundred superintendents supporting over 1100 schools, and was responsible for curriculum and instruction for all 1450 New York City schools. Dr. Alonso worked with the Chancellor on the ongoing restructuring of the system to provide schools with greater autonomy tied to greater accountability for improving student outcomes. During Dr. Alonso’s tenure in New York City the district was a finalist for the Broad Prize in urban education, as a result of outperforming similar districts in the aggregate and across all student subgroups, for three consecutive years. New York City students reached the highest performance levels and recorded their highest gains and cohort graduation rates, for all groups, since standards-based assessments were introduced to the City in 1999. On July 1, 2007, Dr. Alonso was named CEO of the Baltimore City Public School System. His reform agenda includes increasing the graduation rate, supporting students with interventions to ensure academic success, and expanding work experiences for student as well as supporting parent and community engagement. |
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Anonymous Our blogger this week chooses to remain anonymous. He has been in recovery for over a year and is now off to his first semester of college. |
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Anonymous Our bloggers this week choose to remain anonymous. They are the parents of last week’s blogger who wrote about what recovery means for a teenager. |
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Rebkha Atnafou Rebkha Atnafou is the Executive Director of The After-School Institute and responsible for the overall management of the program. Aside from her management duties, she provides training and technical assistance to programs and to various organizations around the country on building quality after-school programs and a system for capacity building. Prior to joining TASI, Rebkha was the After-School Strategist for the Safe and Sound Campaign of Baltimore. She brings years of experience in youth development, healthy teen sexuality, youth violence prevention, and comprehensive school health from her work at the Education Development Center in Massachusetts. Rebkha holds a Master’s degree in Public Health from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s in Biology from SUNY Binghamton. |
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The Baltimore Urban Debate League Apprentices The Baltimore Urban Debate League’s Apprentices are a group twelve Baltimore City public school juniors and seniors who feel that their participation in debate has been a positive impact on their lives and strongly believe in furthering their debate education by sharing it with younger students. The Apprentices each mentor/coach a middle school debate team and organize public debate forums on issues impacting Baltimore City while serving in the one-year, paid program. The Baltimore Urban Debate League was founded in 1999 as part of a national initiative driven by the Open Society Institute to bring debate back into the urban classroom. Since then, BUDL has grown to reach more than 1,000 students annually with its debate-based programming. BUDL has strong public/private partnership with the Baltimore City Public School System and with the city’s corporate and philanthropic community. BUDL’s mission is to enrich the academic experience of students from Baltimore City’s public schools through participation in team policy debate. BUDL is especially interested in students with untapped potential, who are disengaged from the contemporary high school classroom. Through debate, students learn to become engaged learners, critical thinkers and citizens who are effective advocates for themselves and their communities. |
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Clinton Bamberger, Esq. Clinton Bamberger, Esq., Emeritus Professor at the University of Maryland School of Law, has worked as an attorney in public and private practice, a law school teacher and dean, and a public administrator and legal services attorney. He holds a B.S. from Loyola College and a J.D. from Georgetown University. Bamberger is a tireless advocate of accessible legal services for the poor and is the Founding National Director of the Legal Services Program of the United States Office of Economic Opportunity. During his lifetime, he has accumulated numerous awards for his work as an educator, lawyer, and legal services pioneer. Bamberger has been a visiting professor at universities around the world and has helped to develop courses in clinical instruction in South Africa, Nepal, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. He currently serves as a board member of Open Society Institute-Baltimore and acts as an advisor on issues of access to justice. |
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Anirban Basu Anirban Basu is Chairman & CEO of Sage Policy Group, Inc., an economic and policy consulting firm in Baltimore, Maryland. Basu is one of the Mid-Atlantic region’s most recognizable economists, in part because of his consulting work on behalf of numerous clients, including prominent developers, bankers, brokerage houses, energy suppliers and law firms. On behalf of government agencies and non-profit organizations, Basu has written several high-profile economic development strategies, including co-authoring Baltimore City’s economic growth strategy. In recent years, he has focused upon health economics, the economics of education and economic development. He currently lectures at Johns Hopkins University in micro-, macro-, urban and international economics. Basu is involved with numerous organizations in a voluntary capacity, including serving as a Baltimore City Public School System board member. Basu is also on the boards of First Mariner Bank and the Maryland Business Council and on the MedStar strategic planning committee. He is also chairman of the Baltimore County Economic Advisory Committee and economic advisor to the Baltimore-Washington Corridor Chamber of Commerce. Basu earned his B.S. in Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1990. He earned his Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and his Master’s in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park. His Juris Doctor was earned at the University of Maryland School of Law in 2003. |
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Deborah Bedwell Deborah Bedwell is executive director and one of the founders of Baltimore Clayworks, a non-profit, thirty year old ceramic arts center located in the Mt. Washington neighborhood of Baltimore City. She is a potter and has exhibited her work locally and in such national venues as the Renwick Museum Shop of the Smithsonian, The Clay Art Center in Port Chester, NY., The Art Alliance Gallery in Philadelphia, and with Baltimore Clayworks at three NCECA (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts) conferences Her last solo exhibition, An Abundance of Cups, was hosted by Baltimore Clayworks in January 2009. She is frequently invited to jury and curate exhibitions, and has served on grants panels for Maryland and adjoining states. Bedwell served as the on-site liaison for the 2005 Baltimore NCECA Conference, and was instrumental in securing, for the first time, the NCECA national conference for Baltimore – attracting more than 5,000 people nationally and internationally and generating more than $5.9 million in revenue to Baltimore. In conjunction with this effort, Bedwell organized a regionwide exhibition event called Tour de Clay that has received widespead national and local press coverage, and international participation. Bedwell and Clayworks received the Innovator of the Year Award for that project from The Daily Record. Bedwell has directed the building of programs for ceramic art education that range from professional-level workshops for working ceramic artists and sculptors, to studio classes in all aspects of ceramics on site at Baltimore Clayworks, to regionwide community based visual arts programs in fiber, ceramics, architectural tile, mural painting, printmaking and drawing – primarily for underserved children and youth. Her published article on evaluation of afterschool arts programs, Measuring Joy, is used on the National Endowment for the Arts website. In her 30 years as director of Clayworks, she has crafted more than 26 collaborations and partnerships of 2 months to 4 years duration with artists, area grassroots organizations, governmental agencies, and cultural institutions to bring arts programs of authenticity and meaning to economically deprived and marginalized adults and children.. In recognition of her efforts in serving the African-American community in Baltimore, Bedwell was awarded, in 2004, the “Unsung Heroes, Torchbearer Award” by the Baltimore Chapter of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women. In 2000, she was one of three Americans invited to Taiwan to lecture on community involvement in the arts at the opening of the world’s largest ceramic art museum in Yingko City, a Taipei suburb. Bedwell serves on the boards of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance and on the National Council for Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) since 2005. In 2001 and again in 2004, Bedwell was named one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women by The Daily Record, a Baltimore based business newspaper. She is a graduate of the 2002 class of the Greater Baltimore Committee’s LEADERship program. |
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Peter Beilenson, MD, MPH Peter Beilenson, MD, MPH was Baltimore City Health Commissioner from 1992-2005, where he focused his efforts on drug treatment expansion, childhood lead poisoning prevention, initiating a pioneering needle exchange program, contraceptive availability in the schools, child protective service reform and leading an effort for universal health coverage in Maryland. After a hiatus to run for Congress, he has been serving as the Howard County Health Officer since early 2007, where he and his team are about to launch the first county-wide universal health coverage program in the country. Dr. Beilenson received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard College, his medical degree from Emory University, and his master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University. He lives in the Cedarcroft neighborhood of Baltimore City with his wife, Chris, and his five children. |
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Madison Smartt Bell Madison Smartt Bell is the author of twelve novels, including The Washington Square Ensemble (1983), Waiting for the End of the World (1985), Straight Cut (1986), The Year of Silence (1987), Doctor Sleep (1991), Save Me, Joe Louis (1993), Ten Indians (1997) and Soldier’s Joy, which received the Lillian Smith Award in 1989. Bell has also published two collections of short stories: Zero db (1987) and Barking Man (1990). In 2002, the novel Doctor Sleep was adapted as a film, Close Your Eyes, starring Goran Visnjic, Paddy Considine, and Shirley Henderson. Forty Words For Fear, an album of songs co-written by Bell and Wyn Cooper and inspired by the novel Anything Goes,was released by Gaff Music in 2003; other performers include Don Dixon, Jim Brock, Mitch Easter and Chris Frank. Bell’s eighth novel, All Soul’s Rising, was a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award and the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award and winner of the 1996 Anisfield-Wolf award for the best book of the year dealing with matters of race. All Souls Rising, along with the second and third novels of his Haitian Revolutionary trilogy, Master of the Crossroads and The Stone That The Builder Refused, is available in a uniform edition from Vintage Contemporaries. Toussaint Louverture: A Biography, appeared from Pantheon in 2007. Born and raised in Tennessee, he has lived in New York and in London and now lives in Baltimore, Maryland. A graduate of Princeton University (A.B 1979) and Hollins College (M.A. 1981), he has taught in various creative writing programs, including the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars. Since 1984 he has taught at Goucher College, along with his wife, the poet Elizabeth Spires. He is currently Director of the Kratz Center for Creative Writing at Goucher College, and has been a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers since 2003. For more details, visit http://faculty.goucher.edu/mbell |
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Muriel Berkeley Muriel Berkeley’s lifelong interest has been to understand why our public schools do not better serve our disadvantaged urban students. She began teaching as an elementary special education teacher in New Jersey in 1968. Since then she has taught as an elementary regular education teacher and a middle school teacher in Baltimore City. With a doctorate in Social Relations from the Johns Hopkins University, she has also taught undergraduate and graduate level courses. With the leadership of Robert Embry, President of the Abell Foundation, and with funding from the Abell Foundation, Ms. Berkeley helped to found the Baltimore Curriculum Project in 1996. Since that time the Baltimore Curriculum Project has become a self-sustaining non-profit and operates five public charter schools in east Baltimore: City Springs School, Collington Square School of the Arts, Dr. Rayner Browne Academy, Hampstead Hill Academy and Wolfe Street Academy. |
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Deepak Bhargava Deepak Bhargava is Executive Director of the Center for Community Change, a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to develop the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to change the policies and institutions that affect their lives. During his tenure as Executive Director, Mr. Bhargava has sharpened the Center’s focus on grassroots community organizing as the central strategy for social justice and on public policy change as the key lever to improve poor people’s lives. He conceived and led the Center’s work on immigration reform, which has resulted in the creation of the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM), a leading grassroots network pressing for changes in the country’s immigration laws. He has spearheaded the creation of innovative new projects like Generation Change, a program that recruits, trains and places the next generation of community organizers, and the Community Voting Project, which brings large numbers of low-income voters into the electoral process. Mr. Bhargava has provided intellectual leadership on a variety of issues including the future of the progressive movement in the United States, poverty, racial justice, immigration reform, community organizing, and economic justice. He has written on these issues for a range of publications including The Washington Post, The Nation, and The American Prospect. His strategy memo co-authored with Seth Borgos “A Proposition for the Future” provided a roadmap for how the field of grassroots organizing and the Center needed to adapt to changing circumstances, and proved highly influential in the field. His groundbreaking article co-authored with Jean Haridsty, “Wrong About the Right,” influenced how many progressives think about the strategies necessary to achieve lasting social change. Mr. Bhargava has testified before Congress on over 20 occasions. Mr. Bhargava currently serves on the boards of the Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, the Discount Foundation, the League of Education Voters, The Nation editorial board, and the National Advisory Board for the Open Society Institute. He is a past board member of the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) and the Applied Research Center. Born in Bangalore, India, Mr. Bhargava immigrated to the United States when he was a child. He grew up in New York City and graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his partner Harry Hanbury, a documentary filmmaker. |
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Brenda Bratton Blom Brenda Bratton Blom is a Law School Professor. She received her B.A. in 1989 and her J.D. in 1993 from the University of Baltimore. She received her Masters in Policy Science in 1993 and her Ph.D. in legal policy in 2002 from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Professor Blom worked in public interest law firms after graduating from law school, first, as a staff attorney for the Community Law Center, and then as Executive Director of Empowerment Legal Services Program. Joining the Clinical Law Office of the University of Maryland School of Law in the summer of 1998 was a logical next step. She supervised the work in the Economic Housing and Community Development Clinic for nearly 10 years, and in the fall of 2005 began teaching the Community Justice Clinic. She became the Director of Clinical Programs at Maryland in the spring of 2003. Her interests include nonprofit and community organization activity in community and economic development, the interaction between the justice system and communities, and the role that solo and small firm lawyers have on the delivery of legal services to communities, as well as the legal policies which promote and prohibit such activities. Professional activities include service as the Chair or co-Chair of the National Law School Consortium Project, and serving on the boards and in the leadership structure of the ABA Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development’s Legal Educator’s Committee, Civil Justice, Inc., the Maryland Legal Assistance Network, the ABA’s Advisory Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services. She is a member of the American Bar Association, the Maryland State Bar Association, the Baltimore City Bar Association and the Supreme Court Bar, and is appointed to serve on several committees for professional service. She has also lived in the same neighborhood in Baltimore City since 1981. |
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Maria Broom As an actress, Broom is known nationally from her roles in HBO’s “The Wire” and “The Corner”. In Baltimore, she is the ‘StoryDancer’ with Young Audiences of Maryland. A Fulbright scholar, an OSI Fellow and a former television news reporter, she is the honored recipient of the 2004 Governor’s Arts Award. Currently on the faculty at the Baltimore School for the Arts, Broom also mentors eighty young ‘Dance Girls of Baltimore’. |
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Peter Bruun Peter Bruun, Artist/Director of Art on Purpose, brings a uniquely developed approach to his position, using his skills as artist, educator, curator, and arts advocate. His work with The Park School of Baltimore, Evergreen House, The Contemporary Museum, Villa Julie Gallery, Creative Alliance, and Goucher College’s Rosenberg Gallery has won praise and critical acclaim in the pages of Baltimore Magazine, City Paper, The Baltimore Sun, and elsewhere. |
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Greg Cantori Greg Cantori has been Executive Director of the Marion I. & Henry J. Knott Foundation for the past eight years. The Foundation makes annual grants totaling approximately $3.5 million in the areas of Human Services, Education, Catholic Activities, Health Care and the Arts and Humanities. He was Executive Director of Light Street Housing Corporation for seven years where he implemented the vision of “Homelessness to Homeownership”. He led Light Street Housing in building and renovating homes for first time buyers, creating a vacant house, jobs, and recovery program, and in building Carrington House, a 30-unit home in Walbrook for men in recovery. Before that, he was a Senior Cartographer at the Defense Imaging Agency for nine years where he provided hydrographic and joint operations mapping including supporting our forces during Desert Shield and Storm. Cantori is currently President of One Less Car and is a Boardmember of the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers. He’s the past president of the Baltimore Housing Roundtable, and South Baltimore Improvement Committee. Cantori, a Licensed Merchant Marine Officer, Master of auxiliary sail, has sailed the East Coast as far as Bermuda and the Bahamas. He plays the bagpipes and bicycles to work many days of the week (22 miles each way) and has just reached 100,000 bicycle commuting miles! He has lived in the Baltimore area since 1972 not including two years in Cairo, Egypt. He enjoys tandeming, hiking, rowing and sailing with his wife and two daughters. |
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Victor A. Capoccia, Ph.D. Victor Capoccia is program director of the Open Society Institute’s national Initiative to Close the Addiction Treatment Gap, and senior scientist at University of Wisconsin where he conducts research and support for the Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment. Previously he led the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Addiction Prevention and Treatment team, and also worked on the Human Capital and Quality teams. For ten years, Capoccia was the President and CEO of CAB Health and Recovery Services, Inc. a community based provider for inpatient, residential, outpatient, prevention, and related health services in the alcohol and drug addiction field. He was an invited member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Community Based Drug Treatment; and Chairman of CSAT’s National Treatment Plan workgroup on Improving Treatment Systems. Earlier, Dr. Capoccia was director of Community Health Services for the City of Boston, Department of Health and Hospitals. There, he conducted the feasibility study of the Neighborhood Health Plan, Inc., and directed the city health department expansion of prenatal outreach, emergency medical services, HIV prevention, and substance abuse treatment efforts. Dr. Capoccia served on the faculty of Boston College Graduate School of Social Work as an Associate Professor, publishing and teaching in the areas of community planning. During this period, he wrote “Your Health” a Boston Herald weekly column that helped consumers understand the health care system, and also was the Chairman of the Board of the Greater Boston Health Systems Agency. Dr. Capoccia served on the boards of United Ways, and other philanthropic organizations. He was invited by the British National Health Service, Modernisation Agency to join in their work to develop guidance on sustaining change; and assists a United Nations work group expand quality treatment in developing nations through ‘Treatnet’. He holds a BA and MSW in Community Organization from Boston College, an MA in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Iowa, and a Ph.D. in Health Policy from Brandeis University’s Heller Graduate School. |
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Hedy Nai-Lin Chang Hedy Nai-Lin Chang is a consultant focused on helping people and organizations promote social and economic justice by adopting effective strategies for strengthening families, increasing school readiness among young children and improving neighborhoods. An experienced researcher, writer and facilitator, she pays special attention to increasing the capacity of people and agencies to promote equity and draw strength from racial and linguistic diversity. A major focus of her current work is managing an applied research project on chronic absenteeism in early elementary school. Supported by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, this project is examining the causes, consequences and potential responses to missing extended periods of school in grades K-3. Ms. Chang has over 18 years of experience working in philanthropy and the non-profit sector. When she served as a senior program officer for Strengthening Families at the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, she oversaw its grantmaking focused on helping families succeed economically and prepare their children for school through investments in low-income neighborhoods combined with local and state policy work. She is also the former Co-Director of California Tomorrow, a non-profit that uses research, technical assistance, coalition-building and advocacy to advance policies and practices that promote equal opportunity and healthy development of children and families in a diverse society. She founded and directed the organization’s programs exploring the implications of diversity for early care and education and building the capacity of community-building initiatives to address issues of race, language, culture and class. She is the author of numerous publications. Her most recent writings include: Deepening the Dialogue: Key Considerations for Expanding Access to High Quality Preschool in California; and Getting Ready for Quality: The Critical Importance of Developing and Supporting a Skilled, Ethnically and Linguistically Diverse Early Childhood Workforce. |
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William C. Clarke, III Bill Clarke moved to Baltimore 30 years ago to become a partner in the investment advisory firm Campbell & Company. When he started, it was a firm of four people, but by the time he retired in May 2007 as partner and executive vice president of research, the company had grown to 140 people. Today, Clarke manages his own grant-making foundation, which helps the less fortunate in Maryland and overseas. He and his also travel regularly to Cuba and Guatemala to do mission work through the Baltimore Presbytery. That work consists of helping the marginalized populations get back on their feet. Clarke joined the OSI-Baltimore board in 2007 and also serves on the board of WYPR-FM and the advisory board of IMA World Health, a faith-based nonprofit in New Windsor, Md., that provides products and services for global emergency, health and development programs. |
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Bonnie S. Copeland, Ph.D Bonnie S. Copeland, Ph.D., former CEO of the Baltimore City Public School System, who works now with Port Discovery Children’s Museum, the Fund for Educational Excellence, and private foundations. |
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Ronald George Covington, Jr. Ronald G. Covington Jr. is a native of Baltimore Maryland. He attended Calvert Hall College High School and Morgan State University. He is currently pursuing a degree in Human Service Administration from the University of Baltimore. He has participated in many workshops, trainings and seminars and holds two certificates in Youth Ministry. He received the Mother Mary Lange Leadership Award in 1999 from the Archdioceses of Baltimore in recognition of his work with youth. Rev. Covington was licensed to the Gospel Ministry in December of 2002 and was ordained on January 31, 2007 both at the Koinonia Baptist Church. In November of 2009 he was named Pastor of the Hope Community Church, Baltimore MD. Much of his life’s work has been in service to youth and their families. He has taught, coached, and preached. He has also designed, implemented and managed programs, facilitated workshops and retreats, participated on panel discussion, mentored and counseled youth and their families on a wide variety of topics. Rev. Covington had the privilege of serving on the Youth and Young Adult advisory committee for World Youth Day held in Denver Colorado in August of 1993. Rev. Covington has been a leader with (B.U.I.L.D.) Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development since 2006, working closely with the Youth Campaign. He is currently employed at the Child First Authority of Baltimore, a partner of B.U.I.L.D., as a Community Organizer and Director of High Expectations youth initiative. High Expectations is an in-school violence prevention and mentoring program operating in several Baltimore City Public Schools. Ronald is married to the former Vicki Charles and they have one daughter Victoria. They currently reside in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area. |
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Andre M. Davis Judge Andre Davis, U.S. District Court for Maryland, has served on the OSI-Baltimore board since 2000. Confirmed by the United States Senate in 1995, Judge Davis brought to the federal trial bench the experience gained from eight years as a state trial judge, where he served on the Circuit Court for Baltimore City from December 1990 through August 1995 and on the and on the District Court of Maryland for Baltimore City from August 1987 through December 1990. Judge Davis is also an adjunct professor of law at the University of Maryland School of Law and a frequent lecturer for ALI-ABA and other organizations that provide continuing legal education seminars. He has served as a member on numerous boards, including the Open Society Institute-Baltimore, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Central Maryland, the Baltimore Urban Debate League, the Advisory Board of “Community Law in Action,” and the International Committee of the Einstein Institute for Science, Health and the Courts. Judge Davis received his B.A. in American History from the University of Pennsylvania and his J.D., with honors, from the University of Maryland School of Law. |
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Phoebe Stein Davis Phoebe Stein Davis is the Executive Director of the Maryland Humanities Council. Before taking this position a year ago, Davis was with the Illinois Humanities Council (IHC) in Chicago for nearly ten years, where she was responsible for several major initiatives, including a highly successful effort to increase the national visibility of IHC and assisting in the creation and execution of IHC’s series of year-long public programs on race, advances in genetics, and environmental issues. A Maryland native, Davis is very happy to be back in her home state and is excited to be using the humanities (literature, history, philosophy, etc.) to promote informed dialogue and civic engagement among Marylanders statewide. Davis earned her B.A. in English from the University of Michigan and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Loyola University of Chicago. The author of numerous articles on modern American literature, most recently she published a chapter in Challenging Modernism (Ashgate, 2002). She lives in the Old Homeland neighborhood of Baltimore with her husband and ten pet fish. |
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Vincent DeMarco Vincent DeMarco is a long time advocate for public health causes including reducing teen smoking and gun violence and expanding health care access. As President of the Maryland Citizens’ Health Initiative, he is working to guarantee quality, affordable health care for all Marylanders. His work has resulted in legislation which has substantially reduced smoking in Maryland and has expanded health care insurance to over 50,000 people, bringing Maryland from 44th in the nation in health care coverage for adults to 16th. He is also National Coordinator of Faith United Against Tobacco, a national coalition of leaders from across the country working to reduce smoking, which played a key role in the enactment in June of 2008 of landmark national legislation to authorize the FDA to regulate tobacco products. And, as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, he is working to educate public health students from around the world on effective methods of advocating for public health policies. He has been recognized for his work by the organizations such as the Baltimore Sun which declared him “Marylander of the Year” in 1988 and the Central Maryland Ecumenical Council which awarded him its 2002 “Ecumenical Leadership Award”. He is married to Molly Mitchell, who is the Coordinator of the Mid-Atlantic Public Health Training Center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Molly and Vinny have two teenaged sons and they all are members of the Baltimore Homewood Friends’ Quaker Meeting. |
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Monique Dixon Monique L. Dixon, J.D., is the Director of the Criminal Justice Program of OSI-Baltimore. She is responsible for developing, monitoring, and evaluating criminal justice funding strategies for OSI-Baltimore, which seeks to reduce the overuse of incarceration as well as its social and economic costs. Prior to joining OSI-Baltimore, Dixon served as senior staff attorney at Advancement Project in Washington, D.C., a non-profit civil rights organization. In that capacity, Dixon assisted grassroots community organizations, lawyers, and public officials throughout the country with community-centered policing, education, voting rights, and affordable housing issues. She also co-authored several reports on zero tolerance school discipline policies that lead youth from schools to prisons. Dixon joined the Advancement Project after working with the Public Justice Center-a Baltimore-based, non-profit legal organization. She served as the Center’s first Equal Justice fellow where she spearheaded the Center’s juvenile justice reform project, utilizing litigation and legislative advocacy to reform Maryland’s juvenile correctional facilities. Dixon, a member of the Maryland Bar, has committed her entire legal career to public interest and civil rights law practice. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Law. |
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Mayor Sheila Dixon Mayor Sheila Dixon became the 48th Mayor of Baltimore on January 17, 2007, succeeding Mayor Martin O’Malley. After a successful first year in office, in November of 2007 Mayor Dixon was elected to a full four-year term. She holds the distinction of being the first woman ever to hold this position. For two decades in public office, Mayor Dixon has been a champion of neighborhoods and a pioneer for women and minorities. In 1987, she won a seat on the Baltimore City Council representing the 4th Council District, where she served for 12 years. In 1999, she became the first African-American woman elected as City Council President. Mayor Dixon has been a strong advocate for many public health issues, including HIV/AIDS, breast cancer and lead poisoning in children. Mayor Dixon is an avid athlete with a rigorous weekly fitness routine. Beyond her concern for her personal health and fitness, Mayor Dixon is an advocate for programs that improve children’s health through a more nutritional diet and exercise routine. For 17 years, Mayor Dixon was an international trade specialist with the Maryland State Department of Business and Economic Development where she gained valuable experience and insights on the tools necessary to retain and attract businesses. Mayor Dixon is a graduate of the Baltimore City public school system and holds a bachelor’s degree from Towson University and a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University. She is a former elementary school teacher and adult education instructor with the Head Start program. Among her numerous awards and honors, Mayor Dixon has been named one of Baltimore’s Most Influential Leaders by the Baltimore Business Journal and was recently admitted to The Daily Record’s Circle of Excellence for her third selection as one of “Maryland’s Top 100 Women.” She serves on numerous boards, including the Institute of Human Virology, the Transplant Resource Center, the Urban Health Initiative, the Baltimore Public Markets Corporation, the Living Classrooms Foundation, and the Walters Art Gallery. Mayor Dixon is a working mother of two children, Joshua and Jasmine, living in West Baltimore. An active member and former trustee of Bethel A.M.E. Church, Mayor Dixon is grounded by her faith and continues to serve as a member of the Stewardess Board. |
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Sean Dobson Sean Dobson is the Executive Director of Progressive Maryland, a statewide advocacy organization that defends the interests of working families in our state. Before that, Dobson helped to found the organization in 2001 and then served as its Deputy Director. Before that, he served as the Advisory for Communications and Strategy in President Bill Clinton’s National Economic Council. He is a resident of Silver Spring, where he lives with his wife. |
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Shawn Dove Shawn Dove is the Campaign Manager for Open Society Institute’s Campaign to Promote Opportunities for African American Boys and Men. Dove has over two decades of leadership experience as a youth development professional, community-builder and advocate for children and families. Before joining the Open Society Institute in May of 2008, Dove served as Director of Youth Ministries for First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, NJ, where he was responsible for the management of the 7,000-member institution’s youth development strategies, programs, strategic partnerships and special events. He also served as New York Vice President for MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership, Creative Communities Director for the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, and as Program Director of one of New York City’s first Beacon Schools, the Countee Cullen Community Center in Central Harlem operated by the Harlem Children’s Zone, Inc. During his career Shawn Dove has often used his passion for writing and publishing to create a platform for voices otherwise not heard. During his decade of service at the Harlem Children’s Zone, Dove was also the founding editor-in-chief of Harlem Overheard, an award-winning youth-produced newspaper. In addition to the creation of Harlem Overheard, Dove was the founding publisher and editor-in-chief of Proud Poppa, a quarterly community-empowerment publication created to celebrate, elevate and replicate fatherhood success principles in the Black community. Dove’s writing and publishing endeavors include work with Black Issues Book Review, New York Newsday, City Limits, New Vision Magazine and The City Sun. An inspirational and motivational speaker, Dove has delivered empowerment workshops and talks to organizations such as Goldman Sachs, the National Community Building Network, Public Allies, Kean University, the Connecticut Mentoring Partnership and Penn State, just to name a few. Dove holds an undergraduate degree in English from Wesleyan University. He is a graduate of Columbia University Business School’s Institute for Not-for-Profit Management and a 1994 recipient of the Charles H. Revson Fellowship at Columbia University. Dove lives in New Jersey with his wife, Desere, and four children, Nia, Maya, Cameron and Caleb. |
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Tracy Durkin Tracy Durkin’s deep love for Baltimore is one of the reasons Urbanite exists today. A lifetime resident of the city, she has sixteen years of experience in community development. In 1995, she was the first executive director of the Charles Village Community Benefits District. She also worked with the Downtown Partnership negotiating city tax subsidies to create 1,000 housing units in Baltimore. In 1999, Durkin joined Fannie Mae’s venture capital fund to invest in affordable housing in the Southeast region of the United States. She purchased The Urbanite Magazine from its former publisher, Laurel Harris Durenberger, in the summer of 2003. Urbanite was introduced in January 2004. Durkin lives with her family in Bolton Hill. |
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Franklin Dyson Franklin Dyson works for Gaudenzia’s Co-Occurring Disorders Program as a program supervisor. In addition to this position he is also employed by the Free State Regional Service Center of Narcotics Anonymous as Director of Services. As Director he is responsible for the overall operation of the service office. Dyson is also licensed in the State of Maryland as a Certified Substance Abuse Counselor. He holds a Masters Degree in Human Services from Lincoln University. Dyson is a Vietnam veteran and was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army in 1972. He has been married to Jewel Dyson for almost 30 years and they have five grown children. They have four daughters and one son; they also have four granddaughters and two grandsons. One of their daughters recently returned from Iraq and they thank God for her safe return. Until her return they assisted her husband with caring for their two children. His life is quite full. Dyson and his wife enjoy fellowshipping with their church of which he is an ordained deacon. He continues to attend NA meetings (he has almost 27 years of recovery from mind altering and mood changing chemicals). Dyson and his wife enjoy playing pool, which they spend evenings together in their basement doing. They also enjoy trips to Virginia to visit Jewel’s family. As a recovering addict, Dyson has dedicated his life to helping other addicts find a way out of the devastation of drug addiction. |
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Janet Felsten Janet Felsten is a designer, urban planner, educator and community activist. She is the Founding Director of Baltimore Green Map, a project under fiscal sponsorship of Fusion Partnerships, Inc. Formally trained as an architect and planner, Ms. Felsten has over three decades of experience working on public and private sector design and education projects on the East Coast and in Texas. Her exploration of effective asset mapping strategies as an OSI Community Fellow led to the Baltimore Green Map project. 2008 saw the launching of the interactive website www.baltogreenmap.org and the publication of the Jones Falls Trail Green Map. Buoyed by the overwhelmingly enthusiastic response, she plans to expand website content and to develop more community and school-based collaborative Green Mapmaking projects. She welcomes support and public involvement in Baltimore Green Map. Discover. Enjoy. Learn. Take action! |
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Hathaway Ferebee Hathaway Ferebee is the Executive Director of the Safe and Sound Campaign a city wide effort to ensure children grow up safe and healthy in Baltimore City. She has led the Campaign since its inception in 1996 when the city was selected as one of five cities to participate in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s ten-year Urban Health Initiative. Prior to this position, Hathaway was the Executive Director of the Citizens Planning and Housing Association a 70 year old citizen action group. During her tenure at CPHA, the organization was instrumental in landmark billboard legislation to restrict alcohol and tobacco ads, opened the first new school and organized a leadership program for community activists. Hathaway holds a masters in community planning from University of Maryland. She started her career as a VISTA Volunteer and has dedicated her time and energy to community organizing believing that all citizens have a right to a fair and just community and the responsibility for making it so. |
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Julie Gabrielli A registered architect since 1990, Julie Gabrielli has been practicing for 20 years. Her work focuses on sustainable architecture and strategic sustainability for businesses and institutions, including mission clarification and cultural and physical environments. Since 1998, this has been her specialty, and from 2002 until September 2005, she was a founding principal of TerraLogos eco architecture, PC. Past work includes green residential design; owner advising on institutional projects; corporate sustainability initiatives, and LEED Rating System coordination. She has taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland School of Architecture since 1990. She helped to form and lead an interdisciplinary, academic/professional design team for their 2007 Solar Decathlon entry, LEAFHouse, which placed second overall, first in the U.S. As part of her ongoing effort to raise awareness about sustainability, she recently started the website, www.goforchange.com. Its purpose is to highlight the people and organizations in the Baltimore region who are working for positive change. The website is a place where people can come to get information, learn something unexpected, and be inspired to take action. A Baltimore resident for over 18 years, Julie currently serves on the boards of the Chesapeake Sustainable Business Alliance, the Community Conferencing Center, and Experiential Environmental Education Inc, the umbrella for the Green School of Baltimore, a charter K – 5 school that opened in September, 2006. As a founding member of the 2007 Baltimore Bioneers Steering Committee, Julie helped to bring this inspiring annual conference to our region. She was co-founder of the Baltimore AIA Committee on the Environment, and its past chair. She has previously served on the boards of CPHA and the Baltimore AIA. Julie has also written on sustainable issues for Urbanite and Ecological Home Ideas magazines. She frequently shares her enthusiasm for sustainable design in lectures, conferences, and training workshops. |
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David Gilmore David Gilmore is the Baltimore Director of Sports4Kids, a national non-profit dedicated to increasing opportunities for safe, healthy physical activity for children. He spends his days overseeing the program quality of Sports4Kids’ 24 partner schools, raising money for the program, and fostering community relationships. Having worked for Sports4Kids in the field as a site coordinator at Brehms Lane Elementary, as well as teaching middle school special education in Queens, New York, he has a passion for bringing play and fun into youth development. He graduated from Xavier University in 2005 with a B.A. in English. David grew up in Baltimore County and began his love for sports by attending the 1983 World Series as a three-month old, where he first encountered his beloved Baltimore Orioles. He lives in Woodberry. |
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Nancy Hall Nancy Hall, president of 501(c) Solutions, has long been a part of the nonprofit community in Maryland. Since the 1980’s, Nancy has been providing consulting services in the areas of finance and administration to nonprofits throughout the area. In the past six months, she has worked on three successful mergers doing her part to reduce the number of nonprofit organizations in Maryland. Until April of 2009, Nancy was a key staff member at the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations for seventeen years, providing training and technical assistance to many, many nonprofits. Nancy takes the best practices of high-performing corporations and adapts them for use in the nonprofit sector. She is able to make complex business concepts easily understood by artists, social workers, and advocates that often head up nonprofit organizations. Nancy has trained hundreds of nonprofit executives and board members on basic financial literacy not only in Maryland but across the country. A natural teacher and story teller, she is currently adjunct faculty at The Johns Hopkins University, the University of Maryland School of Social Work, and the University of Maryland Baltimore County where she teaches courses on nonprofit management and government and nonprofit finance. Nancy is one of the first women to receive an MBA from the Harvard Business School, which has prepared her for her favorite pastime-running the lives of her grown children. |
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Carlos Hardy, M.H.S. In 1994 after brief stints as a resident in the Salvation Army’s Adult Rehabilitation Center (ACR) in Baltimore and the South Baltimore Station (SBS), a homeless shelter for men located in South Baltimore, Carlos began his career as a human service professional and treatment/recovery advocate by accepting a position with SBS to manage the program’s six transitional houses, and facilitating the shelter’s aftercare program. In 1997 he accepted a similar management position with Light Street Housing Corporation (LSHC) managing the program’s 17 scattered site transitional houses, which housed over 100 men, women, seniors, women with children and custodial parents. In 1999, while still employed with Light Street he transitioned into the program director’s position at the Carrington House (a project of Light Street Housing), a 29 bedroom facility for homeless men located in Walbrook Junction, which is still in operation today under the Jobs, Housing and Recovery (JHR) Incorporated, supportive housing umbrella. In June 2002 Carlos accepted a position with the Citizens Planning and Housing Association (CPHA) as the organization’s first drug treatment organizer. In 2006 he was promoted to director of drug treatment and community outreach with CPHA. In February of this year, Mr. Hardy was hired as the new executive director of the Maryland Affiliate of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD-Maryland) where he is currently employed. In accepting the position Carlos states he envisions his role and, and that of NCADD-Maryland, as focusing on raising public awareness and sensitivity on the issue of alcoholism and drug dependence in Maryland through sustaining a campaign of education, information-dissemination and active engagement in treatment/recovery-related public policy and advocacy issues to ensure that persons affected by the disease of addiction, and their families, have access to resources, systems and support services critical in accessing treatment and sustaining their recovery. In May 2006 Mr. Hardy received his Master’s in Human Service (MHS) degree, graduating with honors, from Lincoln University, in Lincoln PA. Mr. Hardy, his lovely wife, the Reverend Regina Clay-Hardy and their two children Alisa and Antonio live in the Westgate Community, located near the city-county line in Catonsville. |
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Carla Hayden Dr. Carla D. Hayden is the Executive Director of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, in Baltimore, Maryland. Prior to coming to Baltimore, Dr. Hayden was the First Deputy Commissioner and Chief Librarian of the Chicago Public Library, an Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Science of the University of Pittsburgh, and Library Services Coordinator at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. A graduate of Roosevelt University, Dr. Hayden earned her MA and Ph.D. degrees from the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago. Dr. Hayden is an active member of the American Library Association (ALA) and was elected President of ALA for the 2003-04 term. She served as the Immediate Past President for the 2004-2005 term and the President-Elect for the 2002-2003 term. She also served as chair of ALA’s Committee on Accreditation and Spectrum Initiative to recruit minorities to librarianship. She is currently a member of the Boards of the Maryland African American Museum Corporation, Baltimore City Historical Society, Baltimore Reads, BGE, Goucher College, Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and Library, Mercy Hospital Advisory Board for the Women’s Center, PALINET, Roberta’s House, and the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences. Dr. Hayden was named as one of the Women of the Year by Ms. Magazine (2003) and Librarian of the Year by Library Journal (1995). She was also named as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women from Warfield’s Business Record (1996) and The Daily Record (2003). She is the recipient of the Torch Bearer Award from the Coalition of 100 Black Women (1996), the Andrew White Medal from Loyola College (1997), the President’s Medal from the Johns Hopkins University (1998), the Pro Urbe Award from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland (2004), the Whitney M. Young, Jr. Award from the Greater Baltimore Urban League (2004), the YWCA Leader Award from the YWCA, Baltimore (2004), and the Barnard College Medal of Distinction (2005). She is listed in the publications, Who’s Who in America, American Education, and Among African Americans. She has also received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from University of Baltimore (2000), Morgan State University (2001), and McDaniel College (2007). |
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Erin Hodge-Williams Erin Hodge-Williams is the Executive Director of Higher Achievement Baltimore, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping underserved middle school students excel and advance to top high schools in Baltimore City. She comes to Higher Achievement after working as Baltimore’s After School Strategy Director for the Safe and Sound Campaign, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the well-being of children and youth in Baltimore. At Safe and Sound, Ms. Hodge-Williams worked with key public and foundation leaders to develop and implement the BOOST after school initiative, a citywide after school model, which started in 15 Baltimore City Public Schools in 2004 and has expanded to 57 schools in 2007-2008. She forged relationships with organizations in the public and private sector to identify ways to leverage after school opportunities for children and youth, and helped raise over $10 million dollars over five years through advocacy efforts and accessing a variety of funding streams. Previously, Ms. Hodge-Williams was the Director of the St. Veronica’s After-School Academy for Associated Catholic Charities, and a Manager and Resource Center Coordinator for the Millennium Center at the Advanced Resource Management Systems. Ms. Hodge-Williams is a licensed clinical social worker in the State of Maryland. She has a Bachelors Degree in Humanities from Washington College and a Masters of Science degree in Social Administration and Community Organizing from the University Of Maryland School Of Social Work. |
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Kelly Hodge-Williams Kelly Hodge-Williams is executive director of Business Volunteers Unlimited Maryland (BVU). BVU is a private nonprofit that serves businesses and nonprofits by promoting effective volunteerism and strengthening leadership. Prior to her work at BVU, Ms. Hodge-Williams was most recently the executive director of the Sylvan Learning Foundation and the Book Adventure Foundation. Her responsibilities included charitable contributions, community and employee activities, and the management and promotion of the Book Adventure Website. The Sylvan Foundation is a $7million corporate foundation that focuses its grants in the area of education. The Sylvan Foundation created Book Adventure, a free web-based reading motivation program for children in grades k-8, in 1999. Prior to Sylvan, Ms. Hodge-Williams was assistant vice president at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown, an investment firm in Baltimore, MD, where she was an investment advisor for high-net worth individuals and money management firms. Ms. Hodge-Williams received her bachelor’s degree in Business and Finance from Loyola College in Baltimore. She has a certificate in Nonprofit Management from Johns Hopkins University. She is a graduate of The GBC Leadership program and currently serves on its board of directors as well as the board of Big Brother Big Sisters of Central Maryland. She has served as the chairman of the board of Hands On Baltimore, vice chairman of Volunteer Central, and on various committees for nonprofit organizations including YWCA, Woodbourne Center, Everyman Theatre, Baltimore Reads, Association for Fundraising Professionals and Living Classrooms. |
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Irene Hofmann Irene Hofmann is Executive Director of the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, which in 2010 is celebrating its 20th anniversary of exploring the art and culture of our time by presenting new art, new ideas and new creative processes. Since its founding, the Contemporary Museum has been committed to presenting thought-provoking exhibitions, innovative programming, and unique collaborations with artists, curators, and members of the Baltimore community. The museum’s most recent critical, public and media acclaim has been for its nationally-touring Broadcast exhibition, which Ms. Hofmann curated, and the launch of the year-long Project 20 program, featuring 20 artists from all over the globe, working in all media, and representing some of the most promising new talent in contemporary art. Ms. Hofmann joined the Contemporary Museum in January 2006 after spending four years as Curator of Contemporary Art at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, California. She has also held positions at Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. Ms. Hofmann holds a BA in Art History from Washington University in St. Louis, and a MA in Modern Art History, Theory, and Criticism from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. |
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Martha Holleman Martha Holleman is the principal of Strategic Thinking for Social Change, a Baltimore-based policy and research practice. From 2006-2008 she served as a Distinguished Fellow of the WT Grant Foundation at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service and from 1996-2008 she was a Policy Advisor to Baltimore’s Safe and Sound Campaign. |
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Freeman A. Hrabowski, III Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, has served as President of UMBC (The University of Maryland, Baltimore County) since May, 1992. His research and publications focus on science and math education, with special emphasis on minority participation and performance. He serves as a consultant to the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Academies, and universities and school systems nationally. He also sits on several corporate and civic boards. Examples include the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Constellation Energy Group, the France-Merrick Foundation, Marguerite Casey Foundation (Chair), McCormick & Company, Inc., and the Urban Institute. He has authored numerous articles and co-authored two books, Beating the Odds and Overcoming the Odds (Oxford University Press), focusing on parenting and high-achieving African American males and females in science. Both books are used by universities, school systems, and community groups around the country. Born in 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. Hrabowski graduated at 19 from Hampton Institute with highest honors in mathematics. At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he received his M.A. (mathematics) and four years later his Ph.D. (higher education administration/statistics) at age 24. |
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Sherrilyn Ifill Sherrilyn Ifill is a Professor at Maryland School of Law. She is nationally recognized as an advocate in the areas of civil rights, voting rights, judicial diversity and judicial decision-making. Ifill writes about the importance of judicial diversity and impartiality in judicial decision-making. Her articles about race, judging and judicial selection have led to her recognition as an expert on these subjects. She has appeared on NBC Nightly News as well as local network news broadcasts as a consultant and expert during recent Supreme Court confirmation hearings. She also writes about the history of racial violence and contemporary reconciliation efforts. Her book about truth and reconciliation commissions for lynching entitled, On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 21st Century was released by Beacon Books in February 2007. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Maryland in 1993, Ifill served as an Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. in New York, where she litigated voting rights cases, including Houston Lawyers’ Association v. Texas, in which the Supreme Court held that judicial elections are subject to the provisions of the Voting Rights Act. During her tenure at Maryland law school, she has continued to litigate and consult on cases on behalf of low-income and minority communities. Ifill serves on the board of the Open Society Institute in Baltimore and the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore City. She is a member and Co-Director of the Children’s Choir at Mt. Calvary African Methodist Episcopal Church in Towson, Maryland. |
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Bruce A. Jacobs Bruce A. Jacobs is the author of Race Manners for the 21st Century (Arcade, 2007) and Race Manners (Arcade, 1999), which examine how racism works in everyday American life and the impact of media, among other influences, on our racial attitudes and actions. He travels and speaks extensively about race and politics. He has appeared on NPR, Pacifica, C-SPAN, and numerous radio and television talk shows. Bruce came to Baltimore in 1984 to take a job as an advertising copywriter. He went out on his own five years later, and has been a self-employed writer ever since. He is the author of a book of poems, Speaking Through My Skin (MSU Press). He is also a drummer and a very slowly improving saxophonist. Bruce’s blog, on which he writes about all aspects of politics and culture, is www.aliasbruce.typepad.com |
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Van Jones Van Jones is the founder and president of Green For All, a national advocacy organization based in Oakland, California. Green For All is committed to building an inclusive, green economy — strong enough to lift millions of people out of poverty. Van is a tireless advocate, championing “green-collar jobs and opportunities” for disadvantaged people. He is committed to creating “green pathways out of poverty,” while greatly expanding the coalition fighting global warming. Van’s advocacy for the toughest urban constituencies and causes has earned him many honors. These include: the 1998 Reebok International Human Rights Award; the International Ashoka Fellowship; selection as a World Economic Forum “Young Global Leader;” the Rockefeller Foundation “Next Generation Leadership” Fellowship; Elle Magazine Green Award 2008; George Lucas Foundation’s “Daring Dozen 2008;” Hunt Prime Mover Award 2008; Campaign for America’s Future “Paul Wellstone Award 2008;” and Global Green USA “Community Environmental Leadership” Award. Van also co-founded both the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Color of Change. Both organizations are committed to equal justice and opportunity for low-income people and people of color. He is a board member of 1Sky, the Apollo Alliance, and Ella Baker Center. In the past, he has served on the boards of the National Apollo Alliance, Social Ventures Network, Rainforest Action Network, Bioneers and Julia Butterfly Hill’s “Circle of Life” organization. He is a Fellow at IONS (Institute of Noetic Sciences). Van is also a Senior Fellow with Center for American Progress (CAP). A 1993 Yale Law graduate, Van lives in Oakland with his wife and two sons. |
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Matthew Joseph Matthew Joseph is Executive Director of Advocates for Children and Youth, an independent organization that promotes improved outcomes for children and families in Maryland. He is from Baltimore and has worked for 20 years on children’s issues, inside and outside of government. He and his wife Rachel and have two children Naomi and Ben. |
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Jon A. Kaplan, Founder of BMOREFIT, OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow Jon A. Kaplan is currently an OSI fellow who has created the Baltimore Fitness Academy (BMOREFIT) and is training at-risk youth to become employed as fitness professionals. Jon is the Fitness and Wellness Director for Meadow Mill Athletic Club and has been employed in the fitness industry for the past 24 years. Jon was voted the Best Personal Trainer 2008 by Baltimore Magazine. Jon was also a finalist in this past year’s People Magazine All Star Heroes Awards. Rachel Eisler graduated from Yale and The Writing Seminars and works as a teacher, editor, and consultant. |
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Thomas Kim Thomas is the Chief Financial Officer of the Baltimore City Health Department. Prior to his role as CFO, Thomas worked as a Special Assistant for the Baltimore City Public School System, where he managed a $50 million capital budget for the construction and renovation of school buildings. As a Senior Analyst in Mayor Martin O’Malley’s acclaimed CitiStat Office (2002-2003), Thomas helped develop an award-winning model to track performance for City agencies and hold them accountable to the public. Between 1997 and 2002, as an Education Unit Head for the New York City Office of Management and Budget, Thomas managed a portfolio that included a $2 billion school capital budget and a $700 million school food & nutrition budget. Between 1991 and 1993, as a Teach for America corps member, he taught bilingual Spanish to first graders in Los Angeles. He holds a master’s degree in Public Administration from Columbia University, and earned his B.A. from Tufts University. |
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Learning Inc. Students Learning Inc. is a non-profit organization whose mission is to re-engage Baltimore City at-risk adolescents in the process of education. Learning Inc. also provides students with academic and life skills so that they may grow into caring and responsible adults with economic opportunity. As an innovative dropout prevention and credit recovery program serving students who have been failing in school and/or not attending school regularly, diverse techniques are used to re-engage students in their education. Recently, students worked on a two-week project revolving around homelessness. After studying national and city statistics, meeting with a speaker from Students Sharing Coalition, and visiting a local shelter, Baltimore Station, students devised their own plans to address the cycle that exists between prison and homelessness. |
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Joseph B. McNeely Joe McNeely is a nationally known expert and consultant on community development and a veteran community organizer. He is currently the Executive Director of the Central Baltimore Partnership and Co-facilitator of the Weinberg Fellows program of the University of Baltimore’s Schaefer Center. He was the founding executive of Baltimore’s South East Community Organization (SECO) and Southeast Community Development Corporation before serving at the national level in the Carter Administration. He then was for 20 years the President of the national Development Training Institute (DTI), which national columnist Neal Peirce called “the country’s premier trainer of CDC (Community Development Corporation) leaders.” Mr. McNeely, an attorney, lives in Baltimore, is the father of twin daughters and is married to Patricia Massey, a successful real estate developer in Baltimore City. He serves on numerous boards and committees in Baltimore and at the national level, and is a past President of the Citizens Planning and Housing Association (CPHA). |
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Ashley Milburn Ashley Milburn is primarily a found object art maker in the tradition of vernacular arts. He received his fine arts training from the Tyler School of Art of Temple University in 1968. He is a former Peace Corps Volunteer and arts educator. He studied arts administration at the University of Utah in 1979. He served as the Executive Director of the Salt Lake Council for the Arts (1980-1983) and the Christina Cultural Arts Center in Wilmington, Delaware (1987-1990). Ashley received a Master’s in Education with a focus in Multiple Intelligences from the University of Rio Grande in Rio Grand, Ohio in 2002. He is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art where he received a Master’s in Community Arts in 2007. Ashley is a Baltimore Open Society Institute Fellow (2007) and sees his extensive background in the arts and community arts as a resource for assisting a community in rebuilding cultural capacity. Ashley was born in Elkton, Maryland in 1945 and comes from a family with a preaching tradition in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. |
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Cameron Miles Cameron Miles, the Organizing Director for Advocates for Children and Youth and the Maryland Juvenile Justice Coalition (MJJC), has a Bachelors Degree from Coppin State College in Business Management and received a Masters Degree in Legal and Ethical Studies from the University of Baltimore. He is also a member of the Maryland National Guard. He recently returned from 17 months overseas in the War on Terrorism. As the Organizing Director for MJJC, Miles is responsible for organizing and informing the legislature, business community, faith community, parents and youth for a safer juvenile justice system where youth are challenged, trained, mentored, and prepared for a life that will allow them to compete, and realize the “American Dream”. Miles is a member of New Shiloh Baptist Church. He is also the Director of Mentoring Male Teens in the Hood, a group mentoring program for boys 8-18 in the Baltimore Metropolitan area that has been in existence since 1996. |
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David Miller David C. Miller, M.Ed., is the co-founder and Chief Visionary Officer of the Urban Leadership Institute, LLC. ULI is a social enterprise that focuses on developing positive youth development strategies. ULI provides strategic planning, professional development, program development, positive youth development concepts, and crisis management services. Miller is the author of Dare To Be King: What If The Prince Lives? A Survival Workbook for African American Males. Miller earned a Batchelor’s in Political Science at the University of Baltimore and Master’s in Education at Goucher College. |
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Herbert S. Miller Mr. Herbert S. Miller was born in Washington DC and is a graduate of George Washington University with a degree in Urban and Regional Development. In 1967, he founded Western Development Corporation, a Washington DC based real estate development and management organization which focuses on mixed-use and retail projects and has consistently found value in non-traditional solutions based on thorough research and unique market insight. Miller has developed over 20 million square feet of projects, including the Washington DC landmark projects of Georgetown Park, Washington Harbour, Market Square and Gallery Place. Miller also developed “the Mills Concept” of value-oriented super-regional malls, including Potomac Mills, Franklin Mills, Gurnee Mills, and Sawgrass Mills, Florida’s leading mall. The Mills Corporation went public in 1994 with an initial enterprise value of $1.3 billion. Miller serves as Chairman of the Board of Western Development Corporation. Miller also has a long career in leading economic development initiatives in the greater Washington DC area. In 1995, when the District of Columbia found itself near bankruptcy, the Mayor requested that Mr. Miller form and chair the Mayor’s Interactive Downtown Task Force, a 116-person committee charged with revitalizing the heart of Washington DC. Miller provided the leadership that took this agenda to Congress and the White House, working across party lines with each chamber of Congress to address the District’s predicament and convinced President Clinton and the Executive Branch to support the initiatives. Among the solutions that Miller championed and helped implement into law and/or regulation:
Within seven years, the Task Force’s blueprint resulted in over $7 billion in private and public expenditures including over eleven thousand new units of downtown housing, nine million square feet of office space, and a new $834 million Convention Center. Miller is co-founder and vice-chairman of the Chesapeake Crescent Initiative (CCI), a regional public-private chaired by the Governor of Maryland, the Governor of Virginia and the Mayor if the District of Columbia. CCI is an unprecedented effort among the Federal, states and local governments, university, and private sector to improve the region’s global competitiveness and economic prosperity by advancing regional innovation and energy independence using new models of Federal, state and local governmental, university and private collaboration. Miller currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Third Way, a non-profit, non-partisan think tank committing to advancing a 21st century progressive agenda. Miller is also a Co-Founder and Board member of Spotlight Analysis, Inc., a Democratic polling firm, which helps campaigns and strategists communicate with swing voter segments more effectively. In 2008, Miller guided the Third Way and the Center for American Progress’s economic and energy poll, which was instrumental in developing energy polices for the Presidential campaign and in Congressional legislation. Miller has served on the Board of Trustees for the National Children’s Museum, Georgetown Day School, the International Council of Shopping Centers, and is a member of the Democracy Alliance. Recently, Miller was inducted into the Washington Business Hall of Fame. |
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Mike Mitchell Michael Mitchell is the Chief Executive Officer of Chesapeake Habitat for Humanity, a non-profit housing organization that works in partnership with families in need of housing to build simple, decent and affordable homes. Chesapeake Habitat for Humanity engages 2,000-3,000 volunteers per year to gut vacant homes for full renovations that are sold to low-income families for no-interest mortgages. Mitchell oversees all aspects of the nonprofit developer and mortgage company that will ensure sustainability while supporting the wealth building opportunities for our homeowners. Mitchell currently serves on the boards of Job Opportunities Task Force, Capuchin Franciscan Volunteer Corps, New Democratic Club, and AmeriCorps Alums. |
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Dan Morhaim, M.D. Dan Morhaim is a physician and Maryland state legislator. As a physician, he is board-certified in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine, with over 30 years front-line clinical experience. He is on the faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. First elected in 1994, Delegate Morhaim is the only physician in the 141-member House of Delegates, and he is Deputy Majority Leader. |
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Diana Morris, J.D. Diana L. Morris, J.D., is the Director of OSI-Baltimore. From 1991-97, she served as the executive director of the Blaustein Philanthropic Group, a set of eight family foundations based in Baltimore that awards local, national and international grants. Previously, Morris was a program officer at the Ford Foundation, first for refugee and migrant rights (1982-1987) and then for human rights and social justice for Eastern and Southern Africa (1987-1990). Morris began her career as an attorney-adviser for human rights and refugee matters in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the Department of State. She holds an A.B. from Smith College and a J.D. from Boston University and is a member of the New York State Bar. Morris served as president of the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers from 1996-2000 and was a member of its board from 1994-2001. She is currently a member of the board of directors of the Baltimore Substance Abuse Systems and the Safe and Sound Campaign. She was named to The Daily Record’s Top 100 Women in Maryland in 1999 and 2001. |
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Omo Moses Omo Moses was born in Tanzania, East Africa, in 1972. He is the current Executive Director and founding member of the Young People’s Project (YPP), a non-profit organization that seeks to “organize young people to radically change their education and the way they relate to it.” One of four siblings, he grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he went on to become a scholar athlete, leading his high school basketball team to a state championship in 1990. He attended Pittsburgh and George Washington Universities on full athletic scholarships. At George Washington, where he majored in Mathematics and minored in Creative Writing, he received the Black Issues in Higher education Sports – Scholar Award as well as the school’s Creative Writing award. Founded in 1996, YPP is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Jackson, Mississippi, and Chicago, Illinois and works with high school and college students to utilize mathematics as a tool for personal and community transformation. YPP evolved out of the Algebra Project, which in turn grew out of the civil rights activism of the Algebra Project’s founder and winner of the MacArthur Foundation’s Genius Award, Robert P. Moses, Omo’s father. Omo Moses is the Co-PI for the NSF grant entitled “Building Demand for Math Literacy”. |
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OSI-Baltimore OSI-Baltimore’s yearlong speaker series probes how Americans talk (or do not talk) about race. At the November 2nd, 2009, event Can We Talk About How Race Affects Our Classrooms, Beverly Daniel Tatum, president of Spelman College, talked with David Hornbeck, former Philadelphia superintendent of schools, about how race plays out in American classrooms. |
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Jason Perkins-Cohen Jason Perkins-Cohen is the Executive Director of the Job Opportunities Task Force, an independent, nonprofit workforce intermediary that develops and advocates policies and programs to increase the skills, job opportunities, and incomes of low-skill, low-income workers and job seekers. Perkins-Cohen is an expert in workforce issues and has testified before the State Legislature and the City Council on issues ranging from adult education, unemployment insurance, tax policy, child support issues and issues related to people with criminal backgrounds. He has authored several papers describing effective strategies to help low-income individuals access training and good jobs. Perkins-Cohen was awarded an Atlantic Fellowship by the British Council in 2001. Prior to joining JOTF, Perkins-Cohen managed the welfare to work program for the City of Washington DC. He has also served as a lead analyst on employment issues for the Federal Department of Health and Human Services during the development and early implementation of the 1996 Federal Welfare Reform law. Perkins-Cohen holds a Bachelor’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis and Master’s degree in Policy Analysis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
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Earl Martin Phalen Earl Martin Phalen is the co-founder and CEO of BELL (Building Educated Leaders for Life), an organization dedicated to dramatically increasing the educational achievements, self-esteem and life opportunities of children living in urban communities. BELL operates high quality summer and after school educational programs in Baltimore, Boston, New York City, Detroit and Springfield, MA. Phalen is unwavering in his commitment to helping children excel. As a young adult, Phalen participated in the Lutheran Volunteer Corps as the assistant coordinator of a homeless shelter for women in Washington, D.C. and served as an intern for U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy and as a summer law associate at the Jamaican Council for Human Rights. In 1997, President Clinton awarded Phalen and BELL the President’s Service Award for outstanding community service stating, “Earl Martin Phalen deeply believes that mentoring is the key to young people’s success. Through BELL, he has given hundreds of African-American young adults the chance to be role models and tutors to inner-city elementary school students.” In 2003, Phalen was named one of Boston’s “Top 40 Under 40″ business leaders by the Boston Business Journal and was honored by Fast Company in 2006, 2007 and 2008 for being one of the country’s leading social entrepreneurs. Phalen has led BELL’s growth from a local community service project with 10 volunteers to a national non-profit with 100+ full-time and 1,000+ part-time employees educating over 12,500 students annually. As a result of its focus on summer learning opportunities and rigorous program evaluation, BELL was cited by Senator Barack Obama as a model educational provider in legislation presented to Congress. Phalen currently sits on the advisory board for the Center for Summer Learning at Johns Hopkins University and serves on the education advisory committee of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. Phalen holds a B.A. in political science from Yale University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. |
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Shantel Randolph Shantel Randolph is a 2007 Baltimore Community Fellow who works with foster youth in the Baltimore City School system. Randolph, a former foster child herself, works directly with students at the Baltimore Freedom Academy who will soon age out of the system. Through her program, Foster Youth Incorporated [FYI], she teaches young people how to advocate for change in the foster care system. FYI strives to help youth become self-sufficient adults, while changing stereotypes and advocating for improvements in the foster care system. Randolph is in the process of expanding chapters of FYI to other schools in Baltimore. She is married and has a toddler son. |
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Van R. Reiner Van Reiner was named President and Chief Executive Officer of the Maryland Science Center in March 2005. Prior to that, he served as Interim Director for six months and on MSC’s Board of Trustees for three years in his role as President, Bethlehem Steel’s Sparrows Point Division in Baltimore. Mr. Reiner joined Bethlehem Steel in 1974 and was named president, Bethlehem Sparrows Point Division in August 2000. During his career at Bethlehem, he was a leader for introducing six sigma and lean throughout the company. Mr. Reiner currently serves on the Board of the Maryland World Class Consortia and is a founding member and Treasurer of the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore. A native of Lakewood, Ohio, Mr. Reiner holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Wittenburg University and a master’s degree in chemistry from Lehigh University. He also has completed executive education programs at Duke University and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. |
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Jacqueline Robarge Jacqueline Robarge is the director and founder of Power Inside, a seven year old harm reduction program in Baltimore that serves more than 300 women per year. She was awarded an Open Society Institute Fellowship in 2002. For the past 15 years she has worked to increase access to health services, alternatives to incarceration, and racial and gender justice for women and girls. Power Inside’s website is www.powerinside.org. |
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Betty G. Robinson Betty Garman Robinson is a long time community organizer. She worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1964-66 as a member of the SNCC staff in both Mississippi and the national office in Atlanta, Georgia. While raising her two daughters in Baltimore, she worked 17 years in the public health research field but returned to community organizing in 1997 as the Lead Organizer for Citizens Planning and Housing Association (CPHA). She was awarded an Open Society Institute Community Fellowship in 2003 to connect Baltimore organizers across issues and constituencies and to popularize the history of organizing in Baltimore. She is a strong supporter of grassroots organizing groups in Baltimore and believes in active citizen participation. |
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Otis Rolley, III Otis Rolley, III is the President and CEO of the Central Maryland Transportation Alliance (CMTA), a coalition of area business and nonprofit leaders advocating for improved travel efficiency within Central Maryland. CMTA acts as a convener of diverse interest; advisor to city, county, state, and federal officials; and coordinator of advocacy efforts for short and long term strategies [with the necessary state and federal funding] to implement transportation improvements. Prior to CMTA, Rolley was the Chief of Staff for Baltimore City Mayor Sheila Dixon; he also served as Director of the Baltimore City Department of Planning, the Deputy Housing Commissioner and the Assistant Commissioner of Operations for the Department of Housing and Community Development under former Mayor Martin O’Malley. Rolley graduated from Rutgers College with a B.A. in Political Science and Aficana Studies. In 1995 he completed Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School for Public Policy and International Affairs Summer Institute and he was granted the prestigious Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. He utilized his fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to earn his Masters in City Planning. He is a member of Huber Memorial United Church. Rolley and his wife have a daughter. |
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Jann Rosen-Queralt Jann Rosen-Queralt is an artist and educator at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work is site-specific, community-oriented, and ecologically sensitive. Her work is intended to serve as a catalyst for urban renewal and improved environmental health. As a problem solver and initiator, Rosen-Queralt hopes to incite change in social visions, improving the built and natural environment. She employs sound, a variety of indigenous materials, and the history and culture of a site to create sustainable spaces that enrich community life. Much of Rosen-Queralt’s public artwork has been based on in-depth work with design teams and the communities that use the spaces. Her volunteer work studying marine life with the esteemed marine biologist Eugenie Clark inspires many of her recent projects, including her Symbiosis Medallions. Her recent projects include the Brightwater Wastewater Treatment Facility in Seattle, Washington, where she assisted with the development of the facility’s Master Art Plan and designed a plaza sculpture celebrating water treatment and the engineering solutions that make it possible. She is currently working in collaboration with Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects and the DC Department of Transportation on the construction phase of the Columbia Heights Neighborhood Revitalization and Streetscape project in Washington, DC. Elements of the project include an open public plaza with green space and an interactive fountain, along with enhancements to paving, landscape, seating, and signage. |
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Adam C. Rosenberg, Esq As head of the Baltimore Child Abuse Center, Adam Rosenberg brings together his passion for community development and his background in law and not-for-profit management to fight child sexual abuse in Baltimore City. He is responsible for operations, finance and management of the center’s staff, which each year provides approximately 800 reported victims of child sexual abuse and 600 families with interviews, medical treatment, crisis counseling and/or referrals. Rosenberg is a former Assistant State’s Attorney for the City of Baltimore in the Domestic Violence and Sex Offense Units. Immediately prior to joining BCAC, he was with THE ASSOCIATED: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore as Vice President of Leadership Development and Outreach. A graduate of Cornell University and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Rosenberg served as an associate attorney in a plaintiff’s litigation firm. Before practicing law, he was with Kimberly Scott & Associates, a political consulting firm. Mr. Rosenberg, his wife and their two children live in Pikesville, Maryland. |
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Larry Rosenberg Larry Rosenberg is the founder and president of The Mark Building Company, and a fourth-generation home builder. Over the last 30 years, The Mark Building Company has constructed more than 3,000 homes in Baltimore, Howard, Anne Arundel and Frederick counties and Baltimore City. Mark’s emphasis is on building environmentally-sensitive communities that result in sites that are “greener” than they were before development. Rosenberg and the Mark Building Company have received numerous industry awards for innovative design and creative land use in creating livable communities, including Executive Citations for Leadership in the redevelopment of Baltimore County, and the Visionary Award for Outstanding Community Development from the Baltimore County Department of Economic Development. Mark Building’s most recent project is Renaissance Square, a 115-home community being developed in partnership with Enterprise Homes in Essex/Middle River, and Baltimore County’s first neighborhood constructed under the Renaissance Redevelopment Pilot Project. Among his many community activities, Mr. Rosenberg is a member of the Advisory Board for the 2020 Baltimore County Master Plan, and the Baltimore County Renaissance Redevelopment Task Force. |
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Tricia Rubacky For more than 30 years, Tricia Rubacky has raised funds and taught fundraising for local, statewide, and national organizations, with an emphasis on social justice. Rubacky’s development expertise ranges from grassroots events, major gifts, annual giving, and workplace solicitation programs to foundation, corporate, and government grants. From 2004-2008, Rubacky served Advocates for Children and Youth (Maryland) as its development director. She has also served as senior development advisor for the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations and as development director for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. She has also served on numerous boards of directors and volunteer development committees, most recently as vice president of the board of Moveable Feast, a local organization that delivers meals to homebound AIDS/HIV and breast cancer patients. Rubacky is a native of Washington, D.C., and has lived in Baltimore since 1989. She earned bachelor of arts degrees in American Studies and Urban Planning from Rutgers University. |
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Terry M. Rubenstein Since 1998 Terry M. Rubenstein has been Executive Vice President of the Joseph and Harvey Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds, Baltimore, Maryland. She earned a B.S. Degree from Emerson College and received an honorary doctorate in Israel from Ben-Gurion University for her work in the Negev. Additionally, she received an honorary doctorate from St. Mary’s College of Maryland for her “extraordinary leadership qualities” over the past decade, as well as for the creation of the Center for the Study of Democracy. Current board activities include, Hazelden Foundation Board of Trustees (Secretary), The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Endowment Trust (Secretary), The ASSOCIATED, Jewish Funds for Justice, Maryland Film Industry Coalition and The Downtown Baltimore Family Alliance (Advisor). Prior to her work at the family funds, Terry was a homebuilder and developer and a newspaper and radio reporter. She is married to James Rubenstein, M.D., and they have three children and three grandchildren. The Rubensteins reside in Baltimore. |
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Justin Schaberg Justin Schaberg has been working for OSI-Baltimore for four years as the program associate for the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Program and the Education and Youth Development Program. Schaberg works closely with Monique Dixon and Jane Sundius to help manage their grant portfolios. In 2008, he finished the certificate program in nonprofit management at the Institute for Policy Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to working at OSI, Schaberg was a volunteer English teach in Hungary and worked in the IT department at a cancer research center in Seattle, WA. He holds a degree in Central and East European Studies from the University of Colorado. |
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Dru Schmidt-Perkins Dru Schmidt-Perkins became 1000 Friends of Maryland’s first Executive Director in 1998 after serving on the founding steering committee for two years. Prior to joining 1000 Friends she was the Maryland State and Chesapeake Regional Director of Clean Water Action for over nine years. Dru has over 28 years of experience on a broad range of energy, growth and environmental issues gained while working on the state and federal level. |
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Joshua M. Sharfstein, M.D. Joshua M. Sharfstein, M.D. has served as Commissioner of Health of Baltimore City since December 2005. He is a 1991 graduate of Harvard College, and after spending a year traveling and working in Central America, he graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1996. Dr. Sharfstein trained in pediatrics at Boston Medical Center and Children’s Hospital, and completed a fellowship in general academic pediatrics at Boston University. From 2001 to 2005, he served on the Democratic staff of the Government Reform Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, for Congressman Henry A. Waxman. He lives in Baltimore with his wife and their two boys. |
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Melody Simmons Melody Simmons is a former staff reporter on the metropolitan staffs of The Evening Sun and The Sun. She now freelances for publications and local radio stations including The New York Times, People magazine, WEAA and WYPR. |
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Deborah Small Deborah Peterson Small is the founder and Executive Director of Break the Chains, a national organization committed to supporting the development of a movement within communities of color to promote progressive drug policies based on public health, compassion and human rights. Over the past ten years Ms. Small has been at the forefront of the effort seeking to change the failed drug policies of successive U.S. administrations. She helped bring public attention and legal support to the victims of the Tulia drug sting and prosecutions; she worked tirelessly to promote reform of New York’s infamous Rockefeller Drug Laws and helped organize community support for ballot initiatives requiring treatment instead of incarceration for non-violent drug offenders. Ms. Small is a nationally recognized leader in the drug policy reform movement and has been a major catalyst in engaging communities of color and their leaders to address the negative impacts of the war on drugs in their communities. She is a native New Yorker and a graduate of the City College of New York and Harvard University School of Law. |
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Dana Stein Dana Stein is the executive director and founder of Civic Works, a nationally-recognized “urban Peace Corps” that transforms the lives of young adults through community service. Participants rehab homes, build parks and gardens, tutor and mentor students, and make energy-efficiency improvements. In 2008, Civic Works also opened one of the City’s new transformation schools, REACH!, which is a college-prep and career-focused middle/high school. In 2006, Dana was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates, where he serves on the Environmental Matters Committee and is co-chair of the Task Force on How to Improve Financial Literacy in the State. Prior to establishing Civic Works, Dana practiced law for several years at Squire, Sanders & Dempsey in Washington, D.C., working on antitrust, banking, international trade and pro bono matters. He has a B.A. in government from Harvard College, a law degree from Columbia Law School, and a Masters in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He lives with his wife Margaret and two daughters in the Sudbrook Park area. |
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Marc Steiner Marc Steiner, a founder of WYPR, Baltimore’s local NPR affiliate, has been on important on-air media personality for 15 years. In 2002, Steiner was named executive vice president for broadcast and programming and held that post until 2005 when he became vice president emeritus and creative consultant to the station. He serves on the Board of Directors and is executive producer and host of the Marc Steiner Show. Before that, Steiner’s life took many professional turns. He was a commercial radio producer and director for an ad agency; taught acting for ten years at the Baltimore School for the Arts; started three theater companies for young people in schools and state prisons; ran his own marketing and PR firm for nonprofits and political campaigns; worked for fifteen years as a family and youth counselor/therapist with juvenile offenders and with families; was principal of the Baltimore Experimental High School; and worked as a journalist on many community newspapers. The Marc Steiner Show began in March of 1993. The program, which now airs Monday through Thursday, has become known for building bridges between communities of people and thought, of giving voice to the voiceless, and bringing community activism to the airwaves. Over the years, Steiner has interviewed Nobel laureates, grass roots community leaders, authors, and national and local political leaders. He has tackled tough political, social, and cultural issues, and has been a host for many community conversations. He has created programs such as: Voices of the Holy Land, the radio drama Free at Last, WYPR series Brown V Board of Education-the Maryland Story, and the NPR radio series on reflections of the Vietnam War, Shared Weight. Shared Weight and Just Words, the stories of the working poor, were produced by his award winning production company, The Center for Emerging Media. He is now producing documentary collaborations with inner city activists, initiating state wide conversations on our environmental and energy future, and working on multimedia stories for websites. Some have called him the conscience of Baltimore. Steiner is the father of three daughters and has five grandchildren. He currently lives in the country with his wife, Valerie, seven cats, a dog, and parakeet. |
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Ashley B. Stewart Ashley B. Stewart is a policy analyst at the National Center for Summer Learning with primary responsibility to make Baltimore and Maryland national models for innovation and excellence in summer learning. In this role, Stewart provides in-depth analysis of relevant education policies as well as local and state policy and legislative outreach to guide future investments. His primary responsibility is to advocate for and build comprehensive systems of support for high-quality summer learning opportunities in Baltimore and the state of Maryland. Prior to joining the Center, Stewart was a Diplomat with the U.S. Department of State representing U.S. foreign policy to host-government officials, foreign media, business leaders, and university groups through community relations initiatives. Stewart served in South Africa, Mexico and the Dominican Republic where he managed national immigrant visa operations and innovative public diplomacy programs to protect American Citizens and keep America’s borders safe. Before serving as a Foreign Service Officer, Stewart worked at the U.S. Department of Education as a speechwriter to the Secretary and taught high-school chemistry and geometry in Atlanta, Georgia. Stewart earned a Master of Public Policy degree with a concentration in Education Policy Analysis and Leadership from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology with honors from Morehouse College. |
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Jane Sundius, Ph.D. M. Jane Sundius, Ph.D. is the Director for the Education and Youth Development Program at OSI-Baltimore. She is responsible for the development and implementation of a grantmaking program that works to enhance access to high quality learning opportunities for all of Baltimore’s youth, both in and out of school. Major program initiatives supported by this grant program include Safe and Sound’s After-School Strategy, the Achievement First professional development initiative of the Fund for Educational Excellence, and, most recently, the Baltimore City Public Schools High School Reform Initiative. Prior to her work at OSI, Sundius worked as a research and evaluation consultant to local foundations and non-profit organizations. She also served as a senior research associate on a longitudinal study of Baltimore City Public School children analyzing the effects of poverty and family characteristics on school performance. Sundius holds a Ph.D. in sociology and a M.A. in public policy from the Johns Hopkins University. She serves on the Baltimore Youth Council of the Workforce Investment Board, the board of directors for the Baltimore County Department of Social Services, the advisory board of The After-School Institute, and the policy team of Baltimore’s After-School Strategy. |
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Joby Taylor, Ph.D. Joby Taylor is Director of the Shriver Peaceworker Fellows Program, a graduate level service-learning program located at UMBC’s Shriver Center. The program supports Returned Peace Corps Volunteers as they transition home from international service experiences and pursue domestic careers in service and peacebuilding fields. Joby is affiliate faculty in UMBC’s Language, Literacy and Culture Ph.D. Program and teaches a variety of undergraduate courses in which he incorporates service-learning and place-based learning focused on Baltimore. His ongoing work in service-learning and peace studies is rooted in a long history of personal engagement including his own service as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Gabon, Africa, where he led a rural elementary school construction program. Upon returning, he spent several years leading international service experiences for high school youth as a program director for Visions Service Adventures’ in Guadeloupe, French West Indies. He currently leads the Shriver Center’s ongoing partnership with the Sargent Shriver Peace Institute, and is collaborating with a number of regional faculty to organize a Baltimore College Peace Network. He earned his undergraduate degree in Philosophy, Masters in Religious Studies, and his Ph.D. in UMBC’s Interdisciplinary Language Literacy and Culture Program. His book Metaphors We Serve By was published in 2008. Joby lives in Baltimore City with his family, where they are proud to be active participants in the Baltimore Montessori Public Charter School. He takes every opportunity to lead his students on excursions into the City in hopes that learning about its rich history and current challenges and opportunities, will lead them to pursue lives of social change leadership in its future. |
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Kimá Joy Taylor, M.D. M.P.H. Kimá Joy Taylor, M.D. M.P.H., is the Director of the Tackling Drug Addiction Program at OSI-Baltimore. Prior to joining OSI, Taylor served as the Deputy Commissioner for the Baltimore City Health Department. During her tenure at the health department she tried to create more cohesive and integrated public health services for citizens at risk. Before coming to Baltimore, she served as the health and social policy legislative assistant, with issue areas including Social Security, TANF, pharmaceuticals, Medicare, Medicaid and other health care policy and women’s issues. She is a board-certified pediatrician. Taylor is a graduate of Brown University, Brown University School of Medicine and the Georgetown University residency program in pediatrics. From 1998 to 2002, Taylor cared for uninsured and underinsured patients at a community health center in Washington, D.C. and created a city-wide coalition to advance literacy in pediatric primary care. She worked with other community organizations to empower youth such that they will realize their abilities, grasp opportunities, and improve the world at large. In 2002, Taylor was awarded a Commonwealth Foundation fellowship in minority health policy at Harvard University. During the fellowship, Taylors research focused on exploring state legislative remedies for racial and ethnic health disparities. Kima works very hard to keep an important balance between work and personal life so that she may truly enjoy her family and friends who have sustained her. |
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Patricia Taylor Pat leads a nationwide campaign working to mobilize the recovery community to seek and implement public policies that support recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs; break down barriers that preclude access to recovery; change public attitudes to prioritize addiction recovery and show the public and policymakers that recovery is happening for millions of Americans and their families in communities across America. She has over 30 years of experience developing and managing local and national public interest advocacy campaigns on a range of issues including healthcare, community development and philanthropy. She directed the Alcohol Policies Project at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, and the Advocates Senior Alert Process at the health advocacy group Families USA and is a graduate of the University of Michigan. |
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Gustavo Torres Mr. Torres has been recognized nationally and internationally for his leadership and vision in the immigrant rights movement in the United States. Originally a union leader from Colombia, Mr. Torres came to the U.S. to avoid political persecution. He joined CASA’s staff as a community organizer, and has served as CASA’s Executive Director since 1994. Under his leadership, CASA has grown from an organization with a handful of staff members and a budget of under $500,000 to a nationally awarded multi-service Latino advocacy and support agency with a staff of 70 and a budget of nearly $4 million. Mr. Torres was the founding president of the Maryland Latino Coalition for Justice, a statewide grassroots lobbying organization, and has served as the Vice President of the Prince George’s Chapter of the NAACP, the Prince George’s County Executive Transition Committee, and on numerous task forces and leadership groups addressing issues of diversity, immigrant rights, and multiculturalism across the Washington metropolitan area. In December 2001, Mr. Torres received the Ford Foundation’s prestigious “Leadership for a Changing World” award, akin to the MacArthur Genius Awards presented to 12 grassroots leaders nationwide. In 2002, Mr. Torres was named one of 15 Washingtonians of the Year by Washingtonian Magazine. Under his direction, CASA has received numerous awards and national recognition, including: the National Council of La Raza Affiliate of the Year Award in 2004, which recognized one of over 300 Hispanic-serving organizations for their excellence in serving the Latino community; the Letelier-Moffitt Domestic Human Rights Award, presented to CASA by the Institute for Policy Studies in 2003; the Annie E. Casey Foundation/NCLR Families Strengthening Award, presented to CASA in 2003; and the Pablo Eisenberg Award for Neighborhood Leadership by the National Neighborhood Coalition in 2003. |
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Kelly Keenan Trumpbour Kelly Keenan Trumpbour is an author and the Associate Director of Running Start, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit dedicated to encouraging young women to run for public office. As one of the founding board members of this nonpartisan organization, she has had the opportunity to help develop programs for high school and college women who are hungry to learn how a political campaign works and eager to become future candidates. As a writer, Ms. Trumpbour’s book Working at Interest Groups and Nonprofits was praised by former White House Social Secretary under Jacqueline Kennedy, Letitia Baldrige, as “a walking primer of information, easy to read, and even inspiring in its message.” Kelly’s commentary on young women’s unique role in politics has also been featured in Redbook Magazine, Lifetime Television’s Election 2008 Website, CitizenJanePolitics.com, IgniteBaltimore.com, and on Sirius and XM Satellite Radio. Before coming to Running Start, Ms. Trumpbour served on the board of directors of the Women Under Forty Political Action Committee and as the Public Policy Chair for the National Association of Women Business Owner’s Maryland Chapter. Her work has allowed her to lobby on Capitol Hill and in the Maryland General Assembly on topics such as increasing federal contracts to women owned business, improving special education services, and protecting the rights of minors within the juvenile justice system. Before moving to the Baltimore area, Ms. Trumpbour had the opportunity to work under Mayor Dennis Archer on urban revitalization projects throughout the state of Michigan. She is also a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Law, the Johns Hopkins MBA program, the Graduate Institute at St. John’s College in Annapolis, and the University of Detroit Mercy’s College of Liberal Arts. |
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Bebe Verdery Bebe Verdery has been Director of the Education Reform Project at the ACLU of Maryland for 10 years. ACLU-MD represents Baltimore City parent plaintiffs in Bradford v. MSBE, an educational adequacy and funding lawsuit. Court rulings in Bradford precipitated the state Thornton Commission’s creation and subsequent increases in funding for Maryland schools. The Project advocates on a variety of education-related policy, legislative, and budget issues affecting at-risk children, including state and local funding of education, access to pre-Kindergarten, school facilities, and high-stakes testing. An experienced organizer and lobbyist, Ms. Verdery directed the Public Affairs program at Planned Parenthood of Maryland for 8 years, providing leadership in the campaign to pass the 1992 statewide voter referendum on the pro-choice law. She worked previously as Field Director for 11 states for a national pro-choice organization. Her organizing work began in the Carolinas, focusing on community, civil rights, and anti-nuclear issues. She graduated magna cum laude from Furman University with a degree in Psychology. Ms. Verdery received the Women’s Law Center’s Dorothy Beatty Award for significant contributions to the advancement of women’s rights. She was recognized by the Maryland Legal Services Corporation in 2002 with the William L. Marbury Award for Outstanding Advocacy, for her leadership in the passage of the Bridge to Excellence Act. |
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Ben Vinson, III Ben Vinson, III is Professor of Latin American History and Director of the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is a specialist on issues of race in Latin America, particularly Mexico. His major publications include: Bearing Arms for His Majesty: The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2001), Flight: The Story of Virgil Richardson, A Tuskegee Airman in Mexico (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004), Afroméxico (Fondo de Cultura Econïmica, 2004; co-authored with Bobby Vaughn), African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean 2nd edition, (Oxford University Press, 2007; co-authored with Herbert Klein). Born in South Dakota and raised in Italy and Prince George’s County Maryland, Vinson is engaged with how issues of migration and movement impact black identity. Vinson has lectured widely throughout the United States and Latin America, including various institutions in the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Venezuela, and Mexico. He currently teaches courses on the African Diaspora, Latin America, and contemporary race-relations. |
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Ellen Weber Ellen Weber is a Professor of Law at the University of Maryland School of Law where she teaches a clinical law practice, Drug Policy and Public Health Strategies. The Drug Policy Clinic’s mission is to expand access to treatment services in Baltimore and across Maryland and to help individuals with histories of drug dependence overcome barriers to obtaining employment, housing and other public and private benefits. Weber and her students provide legal assistance on a wide range of legal and policy issues related to the structure and financing of addiction treatment, health privacy and civil rights protections for individuals with disabilities. Weber publishes in the area of disability rights, the intersection of child welfare and women’s treatment, and drug policy issues. Weber has worked on drug and alcohol issues for over twenty years. Prior to joining the law school in June 2002, she was an attorney with and Senior Vice President of the Legal Action Center, a non-profit law and policy organization that specializes in drug, alcohol, AIDS and criminal justice issues. She conducted precedent-setting litigation protecting the civil rights and privacy of people with addiction and criminal justice histories and HIV disease. She advised federal Executive Branch agencies on drug, alcohol and AIDS policy, worked closely with congressional staff to shape legislation on appropriations, civil rights protections for individuals with disabilities, health care reform, confidentiality and other issues and testified extensively before Congress on these issues. Weber began her legal career as a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice where she conducted voting rights litigation to address discriminatory electoral practices. She received her J.D. from New York University School of Law. |
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Joan Weber Joan Weber is Executive Director of Arts Every Day, a non-profit whose mission is working toward bringing the arts into the lives of Baltimore City Public School children using the arts and cultural resources of the city. Prior to this position, she served as Education Director for Baltimore Shakespeare Festival. Joan has been an actor, teaching artist and director in the area for the past 15 years. |
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Jed Weeks Jed Weeks was raised just outside Baltimore, and attended Gilman School before moving on to University of Delaware, where he studied political science and English literature. While at Delaware, he became involved in politics, working on the 2006 state treasurer’s race. Since 2007, Weeks served as deputy finance director and personal aide to Delaware gubernatorial candidate Jack Markell. After Markell’s victory, Weeks returned home to Baltimore to serve as development associate at the Open Society Institute-Baltimore. |
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Robin Wood Originally a native of Southern California, Robin Williams Wood has lived and worked in Baltimore for the past 12 years. After four years as the board co-chair of Baltimore’s Safe and Sound Campaign, Wood became the Deputy Director of the Campaign, with responsibility for operations and communications. Wood has participated in the management and governance of numerous Baltimore organizations and institutions, including Baltimore School for the Arts, Baltimore Community Foundation, Associated Black Charities, The Black Philanthropy Initiative, Community Law Center and the Afro American Newspapers, Inc. Robin Williams Wood and her husband, Dr. James Wood, raised four children in Baltimore, all of whom have been launched out into the world. |
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Alfonso Wyatt Alfonso Wyatt joined the Fund for the City of New York to continue over three decades of service to youth, youth serving agencies, families and the broader community. The Fund for the City of New York, established by the Ford Foundation in 1968, is an independent private operating foundation. The Fund seeks to improve the quality of life for all New Yorkers. The Fund provides strategic organizational support to government and nonprofit agencies through its core programs. Prior to joining the Fund, Wyatt worked as a high school teacher, advocate, counselor and administrator. He has worked as a counselor, youth advocate, educator, program developer, administrator, and public speaker. Wyatt has developed innovative initiatives that respond to the needs of young people in foster care, institutional settings, public schools, employment/training programs and faith-based projects. He has trained, and mentored three generations of dynamic youth workers and leaders on techniques to effectively teach, reach and nurture young people. Wyatt has received numerous awards and accolades from his peers, mass media, civic groups, faith community, as well as recognition from both public and private sectors for his work as a youth developer, community-builder, national leader, role model and mentor to youth, young adults and professionals. Wyatt attended Howard University, Columbia’s Teacher’s College, The Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy, Columbia Institute for Non Profit Management, and New York Theological Seminary. He is an advisor to government, foundations, religious institutions, universities, youth-serving organizations and non-profits in New York and around the nation. Wyatt serves as a Board member and advisor to organizations that address progressive social policy issues. He is The New York Chair of The Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, Chair of ACS Commissioner’s Faith Based Advisory Council and Chair of The 21st Century Foundation created to advance philanthropy in the African-American community. Wyatt is an ordained minister on the staff of The Greater Allen AME Cathedral of New York. |
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Laurie Schwab Zabin, Ph.D. Laurie Schwab Zabin, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Population, Reproductive and Family Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (with a joint appointment in the School of Medicine), and was Founding Director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, whose mission is to improve the institutional and individual capacity of LDC’s in population, family planning and reproductive health. Dr. Zabin received her BA from Vassar College, her MA from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in Population Dynamics from the Johns Hopkins; she has since conducted research on interventions for adolescents, on abortion and its sequelae and on women at high risk of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection in the US — and has testified and spoken broadly on reproductive health and reproductive rights. Since establishing the Institute, she has extended those interests to the developing world; with in-country colleagues, she is currently carrying out research on adolescents and youth in Shanghai, Taipei and Hanoi. She has published widely, including scholarly articles, three books based on her adolescent research and many book chapters and reports, and has been cited on the ISI List as one of the Most Highly Cited authors in the social sciences. She is the 2003 recipient of the Carl A. Shultz Award of the American Public Health Association, having served the Population and Family Planning section as Chair, and on the APHA Governing Council. She served on the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on the Behavioral and Social Science of AIDS, the Adolescent Health Committee of the American College of ObGyn, the International Center for Research on Women’s Advisory Committee, and on the Surgeon General’s Select Consultant Work Group on Adolescent Pregnancy. Bridging the worlds of academia and practice, of advocacy and service, she received the annual ACLU of Maryland award for her work in reproductive rights, Planned Parenthood of Maryland’s Margaret Sanger award and the Irwin M. Cushner Award of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association for research that serves the provider and policy communities. Johns Hopkins established a Fellowship in Reproductive Health in her honor in 2002; in 2007 she received the Outstanding Researcher award from the Healthy Teens Network. She was the 2008 recipient of Vassar College’s annual award to a graduate for Distinguished Achievement. Before entering the research world she served with Planned Parenthood — local, national and international — including as Acting Director and President of the Maryland affiliate, for whom she established and directed a Family Planning Center for the Community Action Agency/Office of Economic Opportunity in the 1960’s — a clinic which was among the first to bring federal funding into the family planning field. While on the Board and Executive Committee of the National Planned Parenthood Federation she established, in turn, their first Expansion and Policy, Information and Education, Public Affairs and International Committees, and served on the IPPF Western Hemisphere Council. In the 1970’s, she helped establish and has since served on the Board of Directors of the Guttmacher Institute, with a term as its Chair; that Institute has recently named her a lifetime emeritus director. |
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Jason Ziedenberg Jason Ziedenberg is a criminal justice researcher, writer, analyst, and advocate for ending society’s reliance on incarceration. He is the co-founder the Justice Policy Institute, one of the nation’s leading prison reform think tanks, and has served as the organization’s Director of Policy and Research and as Associate Director. His research and policy work on juvenile and criminal justice policy is frequently used by nonprofits, foundations, think tanks, law enforcement, community organizations, government, and the media. He is the recipient of two Media Advocacy Awards from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency for exceptional research and communications work in support of prison reform. Ziedenberg has served on the California Governor’s Juvenile Justice Reform Working Group and the Mayor of Washington DC’s transition team on corrections. He has represented JPI’s research and analysis before the U.S. Congress, state legislators, city and county councils, and various national and state commissions considering juvenile and criminal justice reform. Ziedenberg has a Master in Science from the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York City, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto. |
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Steve Ziger Steve Ziger is a founding partner and design principal of Ziger/Snead Architects. Since its establishment in 1984, the studio has been honored with over 70 local, state, national, and international design awards, most recently for the Frederick Douglass – Isaac Myers Maritime Park for the Living Classrooms Foundation. Ziger/Snead is recognized as one of the leading design firms in the region, with projects which include the Brown Center at MICA, Hopkins Downtown Center and Bloomberg School of Public Health, Maryland Historical Society, Villa Julie College, Brown Memorial Woodbrook Church, City Life Museum, Friends School, Mellon Hall at St. John’s College, and Mechanical Hall and the President’s House at the University of Delaware. Its designs for Gilman School and Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound are under construction. Current projects in design include the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and Berman Institute of Bioethics, a LEED-certified environmental research and community center for Parks and People Foundation, and the redesign of Rash Field on Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. Ziger serves on the boards of the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Maryland Humanities Council, Parks and People Foundation, The Baltimore Public Arts Commission, and The Maryland State Design Review Panel. He has served as President of the Baltimore Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the Contemporary Museum, and LINC. Ziger has twice been presented with an Award of Special Recognition for Distinguished Service in recognition of his contributions to the profession of architecture. |
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