York Road Shapes VISTA's View of Baltimore

Maggie Porter is credited with strengthening a volunteer umbrella group that advocates for communities along York Road.

Maggie Porter explained that becoming a community organizer was something that she fell into more than she set out to become. But now that her year working to help strengthen neighborhoods in the York Road corridor is coimg to an end on Feb. 1, she said the experience has made an impression.  “I’m definitely very inspired by Baltimore City after this year," the 26-year-old Porter said. "And since I grew up here, I sort of always thought that I would want to get out and move elsewhere, and experience another city. "And I didn’t know if I would ever come back here. I’m realizing I was pretty ignorant about all the work that is going on in Baltimore right now," she said.   The Glyndon native graduated from Colgate University with a degree in …

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