Fagan Harris Works to Reinvigorate Baltimore

As co-founder and CEO of Baltimore Corps, Fagan Harris has made it his life mission to harness the knowledge, skills and talents of young people with advanced degrees in social enterprise, non-profit, and government toward reinvigorating Baltimore, his native city. His non-profit organization wants to build a better Baltimore through the mobilization, education, and retention of the new generation of leaders in the city.

Baltimore Corps works toward scaling effective and efficient social innovations and entrepreneurship throughout Baltimore. Its approach involves building critical systems, innovating effective solutions to the city’s challenging issues, and contributing strategic capacity, which involve the active participation of young leaders. Its goal of building the next generation of leaders in the private and public sectors as well as in the political, social and philanthropic aspects, thus, further spurring Baltimore’s growth.

The organization now works on various areas including implementing education and family services, expanding services for students with minus 1.0 GPAs, and strengthening the emergency hotline of United Way. Expansion plans to Birmingham, New Orleans, Detroit, Raleigh-Durham, and Richmond are underway.

Harris has a history of working toward the betterment of Baltimore, which is considered as one of America’s greatest cities. He worked at College Track, a nationwide after-school program committed to the creation of college-going cultures particularly in underserved communities. He is also a Fellow at the Emerson Collective where he was a staff at the White House Council for Community Solutions.

As a Student Body Vice President at Stanford University, Harris also worked toward empowering his fellow millennials to pursue career paths with greater social impact. He continued his advocacy at the Franklin Project, a nationwide cross-sector program dedicated to citizen revitalization through public service.

Harris has a Masters of Philosophy in Comparative Social Policy degree from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He also studied international human rights as a Senator George J. Mitchell Scholar.