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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Anne Kotleba

ASU Lodestar Center

I was the co-founder and director of the Baltimore United Viewfinders , a youth-driven leadership organization using multimedia arts for community action and income. I got a group of 8 teens together and I taught them a simple Photoshop project. How long have you worked at the ASU Lodestar Center? What were you doing before this?

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5 Ways Libraries Support Disaster Relief and Recovery

Tech Soup

The staff at Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library found itself in a similar situation after the funeral service for Freddie Gray, an African-American man who died in police custody. The school system had one of the worst high school dropout rates in the nation and a high level of crime per capita.

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Nonprofits and App Developers Combine Forces for Community Change

Tech Soup

She wanted to create something that teens and adults could use and that was also free. It has been covered by TechCrunch, The Baltimore Sun , CBS News , and more. 211 demand is growing 10 percent year over year, according to the founders of Reach , a text-answering app for the national health and human services helpline.