Charity Leader Helps Disparate Groups Resolve Conflicts Through Talking

Baltimore

By Mary E. Medland

It is a few minutes before 7 a.m. on a Thursday, and Lauren Abramson, executive director of the Community Conferencing Center, is already on her cellphone chatting with a staff member while meandering back and forth between her living room and front porch. Her home is in a placid middle-class neighborhood that is vastly different from those of the Baltimore schools she will visit this day.

She is eager for

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