Katie Long

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Katie Long


Katie Long is the Executive Director of the Friends of Patterson Park (FPP), located in Baltimore, Maryland.  With FPP, Katie oversees all operations and supports and coordinates free year-round soccer program, tennis clinics, zumba and fitness programs, healthy living seminars and projects, summer concert series and many other park events. Katie is a fluent Spanish-speaker and serves as the liaison to Patterson Park’s immigrant community. She is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer and has a master of art degree in intercultural communication.

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Patterson Park Joseph Beuys Garden

242 indigenous trees were planted locally as social sculpture in Patterson Park, Carroll Park, Wyman Park Dell, and at UMBC. During the first phase, the project initiators provided 100 trees each at Patterson and Carroll Parks, 12 trees and 4 stones at Wyman Park Dell, and 30 oak trees and granite stones at UMBC. A special ceremony at each site celebrated the revitalized landscape.

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Friends of Patterson Park Courtyard

A courtyard space for the new Friends of Patterson Park building.

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The Marble Fountain Garden at Patterson Park

Patterson Park is known to its urban neighborhoods as “the best backyard in Baltimore.” Surrounded on all sides by densely populated urban neighborhoods, this 137-acre park has been valued and loved by the southeast Baltimore community for generations.

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Annette March-Grier

Annette March-Grier is the president and Co-Founder of Roberta’s House, an internationally known nonprofit grief support facility situated in Baltimore, MD. After recognizing the disparity of unresolved grief and loss in urban communities in which the tragic loss of a loved one was common, Annette co-founded Roberta’s House in 2008 along with the March family...

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