Asked about his career arc several days before his mayoral inauguration, Brandon Scott quickly turns to talk of community — and of his elders.
He mentions Ruby Couch, a 97-year-old West Baltimore community matriarch who passed away just a couple weeks before our interview — they met during his first City Hall job as a liaison to the council president’s office — and his grandparents, who left rural poverty behind in North Carolina and Virginia and “laid a foundation” for his family in the city.