Stephanie García

Through voice notes, dinner table recordings, and home videos, a Dominican and Haitian-American friendship becomes the lens for an interwoven family archive.

In this videography workshop, I collaborated on creating profiles of Baltimore social justice activists, bringing attention to those who often work quietly and out of view to effect meaningful change.

Faidley's is a Baltimore icon that has served seafood across three different decades, including laying claim to the superior gourmet crab cake recipe. If there's one thing Marylanders know, it's crab.

Moving comes with many stressors: budgeting, packing, and scouting neighborhoods are just a few. So when Monique Magras (Baltimore ’21) was planning her move from Massachusetts to Maryland—a state she never visited before—to begin her new job as a…

Kenneth Gorham knows that many school leaders are at least two decades older than he is. But he didn’t let that stop him from becoming one of the youngest principals in the nation at the age of 24. When Gorham accepted the position last year, he also…

We hear from leaders across our network who are innovating culturally relevant methods for recruiting and supporting Native educators to better serve Native students' success.

When high school senior Jurrien Fowlkes began attending biology class, he gained something unexpected: a teacher who helped him connect with his Native community.

Black male educators, woefully underrepresented in U.S. classrooms, say mentorship and a sense of community help ensure they stay in the profession. Rachael Tutwiler Fortune remembers the difficult transition of leaving her neighborhood elementary…

Henderson Collegiate, a K-12 charter school in North Carolina, is beating the odds. The school, located in rural Vance County, not only exceeded expected growth on state standardized tests. It earned the highest growth index value of every school in…

Blanca Adriana Ontiveros (New Mexico ’12) works with schools, educators and students to boost understanding of how children can advocate for change and push for greater voting access. Blanca Adriana Ontiveros has taught bilingual special education,…

“I thought I was a free-thinking American with the right of a trial before conviction. Only I can’t be convicted because I haven’t done anything unworthy of a citizen.... It’s as Mary Oyama wrote. The only crime was being born Japanese." Teenager…

With challenges ranging from the uncertainty of what the latest wave of the coronavirus pandemic means for their business to worker shortages, some of Baltimore’s Black-owned restaurants say they also deal with harassing behavior and spurious…

Thirteen students from University of Maryland, Baltimore County, are working to fill a gap in history with the Highlandtown Immigration and Food Project. Through archival research and panel discussions with nonprofit groups’ leaders and business…

One chilly December evening, the candlelit procession started with dancing and drumming. The performance group Danza Guadalupana did an elaborate sequence of steps, hops, squats and spins to honor the patron saint of Mexico, the Virgin Mary, or La…

An Afro-Latinx and Spanish-language reimagining of Giacomo Puccini’s classic opera, “La Boheme,” comes to life with a new animated film available for streaming online this week. Set in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C., during…

Maryland jails will no longer house federal immigration detainees and federal immigration agents’ access to state databases will be limited, following actions Tuesday by state lawmakers. The Maryland General Assembly voted to overturn two vetoes from…

Durryle Brooks was shocked to learn that roughly one in three Black gay and bisexual young men 15 to 24 years old reported experiencing intimate partner violence. He learned the statistic while managing a five-year clinical research trial for the…

The recipe at Elisa Milan’s Baltimore restaurant is the same one she learned from her grandmother: coconut cream, milk, vanilla extract, cinnamon and rum, slowly mixed together over the stove and left to cool. The result is a creamy, cold drink known…

On South Gilmor and West Pratt streets, a mural depicting a green hummingbird surrounded by blue, yellow and pink flowers decorates the intersection of the neighborhood of Mount Clare. Arts and Parks, an organization that blends street art and…

BALTIMORE — The abandoned lot in Pigtown on Washington Boulevard sat empty for 60 years. Now a group dedicated to equitable development and environmental justice wants to build a climbing gym there. But before one rock is scaled, its leaders are…