Office of the Mayor - Mayoral Fellowship

Fellowship Dates: June 9 - August 15, 2008

Marlon Brown

Marlon Brown is pursuing a Master’s of Public Administration at the University of Delaware where he will graduate in May of 2008. His specialization is in State and Local Management with an emphasis in the area of City Management. In addition to graduate study, Marlon is also a Legislative Fellow with the Delaware General Assembly, where he works for the Senate Majority Caucus. His previous internship experiences include the Detroit Urban League, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the U.S. Senate. In 2006, Marlon received a Bachelor of Arts degree with University Honors, from the American University. He majored in Political Science, was the first student to minor in North American Studies, and also earned a Certificate in Advanced Leadership Studies. Marlon was a 2005 Fellow with the Public Policy and International Affairs Program, where he attended the Junior Summer Institute at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is a past attendee of the American University Campaign Management Institute and the Harvard University Public Policy and Leadership Conference. Aside from public affairs, Marlon is an avid musician who plays the trombone and the piano. His Mayoral Fellowship placement was in the Mayor’s Office of CitiStat where he was a GunStat analyst and was tasked with tracking gun seizures and arrests within the City of Baltimore to assist law enforcement officials in analyzing and predicting patterns of gun violence.

Cedric Johnson

Cedric Johnson is a 2008 candidate for a Master’s degree in Public Policy/ Urban Planning from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In 2004, he received his B.S. in Economics from Clemson University, with a minor concentration in Finance. Upon completing his undergraduate degree Cedric entered the non-profit sector, where he first worked as a special projects intern with the ”I Care Now Foundation” (ICNF) in Americus, Georgia. From there he ventured to Denver, Colorado to become a Fellow with the National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE). During the Mayoral Fellowship, Cedric worked collaboratively with the Research and Strategic Planning Division of the Department of Planning and the Baltimore Homeless Services Division of the Health Department where he created site selection criteria for permanent supportive housing for the city’s homeless population. Cedric’s work now serves as a critical component of Baltimore’s 10-year Plan to End Homelessness.

Vanea Morrell

Vanea Morrell is a resident of Baltimore City and a graduate of Baltimore City College, Class of 2004. Currently, she is a student at Dartmouth College where she will graduate in the Spring of 2008. Vanea is majoring in sociology (modified with law related courses) with a minor in African American Studies. At Dartmouth, Vanea is involved in the African American Society, Center for Women and Gender, and the Tucker Foundation, an organization focusing on service to the community. Before beginning the Mayoral Fellowship, Vanea served as an intern in New York City working at the prominent law firm of Davis, Polk and Wardwell. Vanea’s fellowship placement was in the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts where she was a member of the proposal review team for the Free Fall Baltimore Program and a member of Artscape, Baltimore Book Festival, and Baltimore Waterfront Festival coordinating committees.

Sarah Pitcock

Sarah Pitcock is a 2008 candidate for a Master’s in Public Policy from the Johns Hopkins University. She received undergraduate degrees in Public Relations and Political Science from the University of Florida in 2004. Sarah’s work experience includes communications work for the public, private and non-profit sectors. She has assisted in public information campaigns for the City of Tallahassee and the Florida Department of Health. After college, she was the Marketing Manager for the Orlando Repertory Theatre where she founded The REP’s Kid’s Club and won the United Arts Award for Best Marketing Strategy of 2005 for The Anne Frank Project: Lessons in Tolerance in Understanding. Most recently, Sarah worked for the Center for Summer Learning at Johns Hopkins University in marketing and outreach. Sarah’s placement was in the Baltimore City Public School System at Schoolstat where she managed the district’s student immunization campaign. After completing the fellowship, Sarah began working full time as a Deputy Press Secretary in the Mayor’s Office of Policy and Communications while also completing her Master’s degree.

David Scheltz

David Scheltz is a 2007 graduate of the Johns Hopkins University where he earned his Bachelor’s degree in Economics and minored in Applied Mathematics and Mathematics. Outside of classes, David played in a campus jazz quintet and served as treasurer for his fraternity. Additionally, David worked as a Field Manager for the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group where he pursued open space preservation in New Jersey, and as a Research Assistant at the Columbia University Business School. While in Baltimore he worked in multiple capacities at Healthy Neighborhoods, Inc., a non-profit home lender operating in over a dozen neighborhoods in the city. His roles included real estate and tax analysis, loan underwriting, and loan application process reengineering. David wrote his Honors Thesis on Baltimore City real estate prices and the evolution of the mortgage lending industry. His fellowship placement was in the Project Finance division of the Baltimore City Department of Housing and Community Development where he worked with non-profit Community Housing Development Organizations to ensure that the organizations had the necessary public and private resources to ensure that communities received maximum impact from non-profit development efforts.

Kizzi Smith

Kizzi Smith is a Language Arts teacher in the Baltimore City Public School System. Her dedication to the Park Heights area of Baltimore, the neighborhood in which she was raised, has been illuminated throughout her career in education. Currently teaching at Pimlico Elementary/Middle School, Kizzi began her career as a founding staff member of KIPP Ujima Village Academy, both in the Park Heights area. Kizzi received her Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Studies from Morgan State University and her Master’s in Public Administration from the University of Baltimore. As an undergraduate, she held the offices of President of the university’s chapters of the Young Women’s Christian Association and the National Pan-Hellenic Council, as well as Senior Class President. As a native Baltimorean, Kizzi has dedicated her life to public service through volunteer activities with the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland, the Young Women’s Christian Association, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated. For her service, Kizzi has been awarded Mayoral and Gubernatorial citations, as well as the Morgan State University President’s Second Mile Award. Kizzi worked in the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Neighborhood and Economic Development where she was instrumental in developing several sustainability programs and performance benchmarks for the Mayor’s Clean and Green agenda.

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