Office of Inclusion & Institutional Equity
OIIE strives to foster a culture of integrity that values shared responsibility as a critical element of an inclusive, equitable, and diverse community
Community engagement, strengthening Black neighborhoods, and the role of higher education
On May 4, 2021, the Office of Engagement & Community Partnerships and the Office of Inclusion & Institutional Equity invited Dr. Lawrence Brown, author of ���The Black Butterfly,��� to hold a conversation on racial equity in Baltimore City and to understand the role everyone has to play in making a real difference and strengthening Black neighborhoods.
Lawrence T. Brown is an equity scientist and the director of the Black Butterfly Academy, a virtual racial equity education and consulting firm. From 2013���2019, he served as an assistant and associate professor at Morgan State University in the School of Community Health and Policy, where he launched the #BmoreLEADfree initiative. In June 2018, he was honored by OSI Baltimore with the Bold Thinker award for sparking critical discourse regarding Baltimore���s racial segregation.
In 2020, he directed the US COVID-19 Atlas work and response for the County Health Rankings and Roadmaps program in partnership with the University of Chicago Center for Spatial Data Science. His first book "The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America" was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in January 2021.