Diana Morris, J.D.
Director

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.

Aurie Hall, L.L.M.
Director

Aurie Hall, L.L.M., is the Director for the Criminal Justice Program of OSI-Baltimore. She is responsible for developing and implementing criminal justice funding strategies for OSI-Baltimore. Hall developed guidelines and a funding strategy designed to increase the availability of transitional services in Baltimore for ex-offenders, to help create alternatives to incarceration for juveniles and to encourage policies that will reduce the rate of incarceration in Maryland. Under Hall's leadership, OSI-Baltimore convenes re-entry roundtables and evaluation workshops as part of an effort to encourage partnerships and increase program capacity. In addition, as part of the Forging Open Society series, Hall has sponsored an ongoing lecture series on various topics, such as the racially disparate impact of the criminal justice system and high error rates in death penalty convictions.

Prior to her work at OSI, for seven years Hall served as the staff attorney at D.C. Prisoners' Legal Services in Washington, D.C. In that capacity, she litigated civil rights cases in federal and state court on behalf of prisoners. These cases involved a broad range of issues including discrimination against Hispanic prisoners, disabled prisoners and prisoners with HIV/AIDS. In addition, she brought lawsuits to address serious deficiencies in the provision of medical and mental health care to inmates in several of the district's prisons. A number of Hall's cases were landmark cases, presenting novel litigation in a prison context.

After graduating from Northeastern Law School, Hall was the recipient of two post-graduate fellowships, at the Reproductive Freedom Project of the American Civil Liberties Union and at the Criminal Justice Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center as a teaching fellow. Hall earned her L.L.M. degree from Georgetown University Law Center.

Pamela King
Director

Pamela J. King is the Director for Community Fellowships and Initiatives of OSI-Baltimore.

Prior to joining the OSI-Baltimore staff, King served as director of the Citizens Planning and Housing Association's (CPHA) Resource Center for Neighborhoods. CPHA is a citizens action and advocacy organization. Her many responsibilities included providing technical assistance to neighborhood groups and managing several city-wide projects.

King is an adjunct professor with the Johns Hopkins University Police Executive Leadership Program. She currently serves on the boards of the Baltimore Neighborhood Collaborative, the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers, the Center for Adult Literacy and Learning, and the Maryland Citizens' Review Board for Children.

Debra Rubino
Director

Debra Rubino is the Director of Strategic Communications of OSI-Baltimore. She is responsible for the creation and implementation of a new, integrated communications platform for OSI -Baltimore, including publications, public relations, electronic media, and events, especially to support the Campaign for Baltimore.

From 1998 to January 2006, Rubino served as vice president for communications at Goucher College, and was responsible for creating a new, comprehensive identity for the college, which had been a former women's college. From 1988-1996, she served first as director of institutional communications at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and then from 1996-1998, as associate vice president. At MICA, she was one of six individuals from different colleges and universities who worked to launch the Baltimore Collegetown Network, a consortium of 15 institutions from the region, at its inception by building a website (www.colltown.org). In 1999, the Baltimore Collegetown Network established itself as a 501(c)(3) and Rubino served as the Governing Board's president for five years, as the organization, among other initiatives launched shuttle system among colleges and a marketing campaign to make Baltimore a college destination.

Rubino is also an active professional artist—a photographer and printmaker. She serves on the board of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance and Art on Purpose. She holds a B.A. degree from Franklin and Marshall College and an M.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Robert Schwartz, M.D.
Senior Fellow

Robert Schwartz, M.D. is a Senior Fellow for the Tackling Drug Addiction initiative at OSI-Baltimore. Schwartz, a psychiatrist with a subspecialty in addiction treatment, is also the Medical Director of Friends Research Institute. From 1989 to 2000, he served on the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. In that capacity, he was the director of the Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse (1996-2000) where he was responsible for the university's drug treatment network, its addiction training for medical students and psychiatric residents, and the Department of Psychiatry's drug abuse research program. From 1988-1989 he was a fellow in addiction psychiatry at Columbia University School of Medicine.

Schwartz has over 25 scientific publications on addictions treatment and research. He is an investigator in several drug abuse research studies and serves on the board of Baltimore Substance Abuse Systems.

Jane Sundius, Ph.D.
Director

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.

Kimá Joy Taylor, M.D. M.P.H.
Director

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.