Mayor Brandon M. Scott Earns Dual National Honors from TIME and EBONY for Transformative Urban Leadership
Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott has been named one of the nation’s most influential rising leaders—twice. This week, he was recognized on theTIME100 Next 2025 Rising Starslist and also honored amongEBONY Magazine’sprestigiousPower 100: Community Crusaders, placing him in elite company as one of the most impactful public officials shaping the future of American cities.
These dual accolades spotlight both the substance and national resonance of Mayor Scott’s leadership: a data-driven, community-centered approach that is delivering historic public safety results, advancing equity, and redefining what it means to govern with accountability and long-term vision.
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In its profile of Mayor Scott,TIMEhighlights the transformational shift underway in Baltimore as the city records its most significant crime reductions in decades. According toTIME, Scott—alongside Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin—is part of a new cohort of Black mayors “rewriting the playbook on urban safety.”
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Baltimore recorded its lowest homicide rate in more than 50 years.His strategy reframes violence as apublic health crisis, emphasizing prevention, credible messengers, community engagement, and data transparency.The results place Baltimore among the nation’s most closely watched models for evidence-based, community-driven safety reform.Read the fullTIME100 Nextprofile here:🔗https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318821/brandon-scott/
EBONY Magazine’s Power 100 list recognizes leaders who are advancing justice, strengthening communities, and shaping culture. Mayor Scott was selected among this year’s Community Crusaders for his steadfast commitment to making Baltimore safer, healthier, and more equitable.
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Mayor Scott appears alongside fellow reform-minded mayors Brandon Johnson and Randall Woodfin, whomEBONYcelebrates for collectively demonstrating that cities can achieve real safety when leaders center people, prevention, and partnership.
Read the fullEBONY Power 100listing:🔗https://www.ebony.com/power100-list/community-crusaders/
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In Baltimore, violent crime has plummeted as Scott strengthens wraparound supports, youth programs, and public health collaborations.In Chicago, Mayor Johnson—a former educator—is leading the city’s sharpest homicide decline in more than a decade.In Birmingham, Mayor Woodfin’s comprehensive neighborhood investment strategy has corresponded with a nearly50% drop in homicides in 2025.Their collective success offers a powerful narrative for the nation:when mayors govern with vision, innovation, and inclusion, entire cities transform.
These national recognitions underscore what many Baltimore residents and partners have long known: Mayor Brandon Scott’s leadership is delivering measurable progress while raising the city’s profile as a model for forward-looking governance.
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