Mortar co-founder lands Obama Fellowship

A co-founder of Mortar, a Cincinnati organization devoted to helping entrepreneurial residents of up-and-coming neighborhoods advance along with their surroundings, was selected by the Obama Foundation for a two-year fellowship. Derrick Braziel, who in 2014 founded Mortar in Over-the-Rhine alongside Allen Woods and William Thomas, was selected by the Obama Foundation to join its second-ever class of Obama Fellows. He is one of 20 fellows selected for 2019.