Highlights:
1) Korean taco trucks: an oasis in a tourist trap hell-hole. Cheap. Delicious. Vegan. Yum.
2) Drive-thru ATMs that look like zombie brain juice filling stations?
3) Sonya Sohn (Kima from The Wire) is pretty amazing in person, too. She talked about having grown up in the projects and how she hated cops and how triggering it was to be in the neighborhoods of Baltimore, looking into the windows of houses just like her own, disassociating, and then running around a corner on queue to play a cop for the show. It was pretty intense but also really inspiring. After the show she got involved first in doing get-out-the-vote stuff in the projects for the Obama campaign, and then starting an organization, ReWired for Change, to use The Wire as a teaching tool to see if she can make a difference in East Baltimore. Pretty cool.
Sonya Sohn with Susan Sherman (my mentor and adviser at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health), 8th National Harm Reduction Conference, Austin, TX, November 19, 2010(And if you care to read my impressions of Baltimore --Hopkins, abandoned houses, the Baltimore City jail--feel free to read the article I wrote for the school zine, The Stew.)
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