The Department of Service and Civic Innovation was established by the Serving Every Region Through Vocational Exploration (SERVE) Act of 2023 with the purpose of promoting service and volunteerism in the state of Maryland. The SERVE Act also launched two new exciting service pathways for eligible youth and adults, in addition to existing volunteer and service opportunities available through the Governor's Office on Service and Volunteerism.
Jonny Dorsey
Acting Secretary
Jonny Dorsey is the Acting Secretary of the Department of Service and Civic Innovation and Senior Advisor to Maryland Governor Wes Moore. He previously served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Governor Moore from 2023 to 2025.
Prior to joining the Moore-Miller Administration, Mr. Dorsey was Director of Innovation and Policy at Emerson Collective, where he focused on democracy, civic engagement, government delivery, and national service. He served as Policy Director for Mike Johnston's campaigns for Governor and Senate in Colorado. Earlier in his career, he was a White House Fellow in the Obama Administration, placed at the Department of Education, where he worked on special projects and strategic partnerships in the Secretary’s Office.
A serial social entrepreneur, Mr. Dorsey co-founded Global Health Corps, which recruits and places emerging global leaders with high-impact nonprofits to build health systems worldwide, and FACE AIDS, a nonprofit that mobilized students in the fight for global health equity, which was acquired by Partners In Health.
Mr. Dorsey holds a Bachelor of Arts in Human Biology and a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University, where he served as President of the Student Body and won the Deans’ Award for Academic Achievement. He also earned a Master of Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a Zuckerman Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership.
Sarah Flammang
Deputy Secretary
Sarah Flammang serves as the Deputy Secretary for the Maryland Department of Service and Civic Innovation. Sarah is dedicated to utilizing service to others as a tool to bring people together and to maximize the potential of underestimated talent. Her career and personal life have been centered around creating service opportunities to benefit communities, people, and the environment.
Previously she helped to build Baltimore Corps, a nonprofit organization that enlists talent to advance social innovation and establish a citywide agenda for equity and racial justice. Her work focused on scaling the organization through partnerships and starting/growing new initiatives. Sarah led the organization’s COVID response efforts, playing a key role in Baltimore Health Corps which married public health and workforce development by placing and training more than 300 contact tracers and care coordinators, most of whom did not have a public health background. This program was then sustained through creation of a Public Health AmeriCorps program, Community Health Pathways. Ms. Flammang served in several roles for the organization, ultimately as Interim President and CEO of Baltimore Corps.
Ms. Flammang has an M.B.A. from Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and is a graduate of Denison University with a degree in geoscience. Sarah was also a member of the Leadership Baltimore’s Class of 2023.
