Salem Reiner serves as Director of Community Affairs for The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore where he provides leadership in the community affairs efforts within and around the university's five campuses.  As Director, Salem focuses on addressing university-community concerns, representing community interests before the university's leadership and other institutional personnel, establishing university-community partnerships, and strengthening the neighborhoods surrounding the institution's campuses and the city as a whole.

Prior to joining the Johns Hopkins University in 2001, Salem spent 15 years in the public, private and nonprofit sectors in the field of urban economic development and revitalization. During this time he managed a diverse array of initiatives to improve cities, downtowns, retail corridors and neighborhoods.  Salem has overseen economic development and revitalization plans and programs, real estate projects, policy initiatives, economic analysis and market studies, grant and loan programs, has facilitated public-private partnerships, and has managed the delivery of several service programs.

He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from St. Lawrence University and a Masters of Government Administration with a concentration in urban economic development from the Fels Center of Government at the University of Pennsylvania.  Salem's board memberships include: the Live Baltimore Home Center, the Charles Village Community Benefits District, the North Charles Village PUD, Waverly Main Street, the Mt. Washington Improvement Association, the Mt. Washington Village Association, the Mt. Washington Elementary School School Improvement Team, and the Central Baltimore Partnership.

Salem lives in Baltimore City with his wife and two children.

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Erin O’Keefe is the Community Affairs Coordinator for Homewood.  Before joining the Johns Hopkins University, she completed a research fellowship in the Department of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).  Prior to that, Erin worked for five years in community services and nonprofit management for Catholic Charities of Baltimore.  She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Loyola College in Maryland, and is currently completing a Masters of Public Policy with a concentration in urban policy at UMBC.  Erin lives in Baltimore City.

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