The University of Baltimore is a home for many of the city’s greatest champions.

From our earliest days as a place for workers in the city to get an education and improve their lives, UB has served as advocate of, supporter of, friend of, and mentor to its proud namesake, Baltimore.

Students collaborate in UB’s new Robert L. Bogomolny Library, overlooking the city’s iconic Penn Station.

In each of our four schools, you’ll find some of the city’s strongest voices:

• D. Watkins, B.A. ’09, M.F.A. ’14, writes movingly about his experiences as a child growing up in the city in books like The Cook Up; now he teaches in the same program that gave him a start as a nationally acclaimed author;
• Mikhail Pevzner, professor of accounting, is part of a hard-charging team of experts who, year after year, deliver some of the metropolitan area’s top accounting graduates—many of whom go on to serve as CEOs for the city’s best-known firms;
• Jane Murphy, the Laurence M. Katz Professor of Law, directs the award-wining Juvenile Justice Project, which seeks to improve sentencing practices for juveniles;
• Bridal Pearson, lecturer on health and human services, leads the Baltimore Civilian Review Board, an independent agency in the Baltimore City Office of Civil Rights and a proponent of fair and equal treatment of all citizens by local law enforcement.

At the University of Baltimore, we teach the city—its potential, its history, its struggles and its dreams. We are all champions of Baltimore, working with the belief that this community can be a place for transformative change for all.

This year, the UB Foundation is celebrating three more champions, each of whom is determined to create new opportunities and new hope—for tomorrow’s college students, for Baltimoreans eager to learn more about themselves and each other, and for those who have risked life and limb to defend their country. These Champions of the City are leading our campus as we make strides toward a better, livelier, more equitable Baltimore. They’re our champions—and yours too.