Executive Director Gensler Architects(she/her)

Ariana is a trained architect, property manager, community activist, and artist. She is a Baltimore native who started a community organization in pursuit of block beautification, and is a homeowner in Baltimore, MD, and Philadelphia, PA. She has a combined fourteen years of property management experience. In 2019, she served as community outreach chair for the National Organization for Minority Architects Baltimore chapter. Before starting her career in architecture, she worked for more than five years in the restaurant industry. Hosting, serving, and catering for restaurants and events in Baltimore and Philadelphia learning her way around the kitchen. When she’s not being a renaissance woman, she is traveling the globe to learn something new to share with Nosreme!

Treasurer(she/her)

Retired, State of MD Public Health.

Secretary, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) | Black People Ride Bikes (BPRB)(she/her)

Dr. Reed-Jones is originally from Ypsilanti, MI and has resided in Maryland for over 16 years and Baltimore for 4 years. Dr. Reed-Jones is currently a Biologist at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM). In addition, to her work at the FDA she is also an avid cyclist and co-founder of Black People Ride Bikes, Inc, (BPRB) a Baltimore-Based non-profit advocacy organization established in 2019 in Baltimore whose mission is to bring cycling awareness to the black diaspora by building a community of black cyclists with a focus in exploration, health, and advocacy. Neiunna is also very active in her community as the Vice-President of Friends of Carroll Park and a level one Coach for the Patterson Park Girls Mountain biking team. When Dr. Reed-Jones is not on her bike or doing community work, she enjoys yoga as a member of the Be More Yoga Community, watching Netflix, cooking vegan food, playing games, hiking, traveling, and spending time with friends and family.

Vice Chair, City of Baltimore, Food Resilience Planner (she/her)

Lindsay Adams earned her Master’s in Health Sciences with a focus on Food Systems, Agriculture, and Sustainability and received a certification in Food Systems, the Environment, and Public health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2019. Before this, she spent 10 years in Colorado where she received her BA in Public Health from the University of Colorado and worked as a community gardener, nutrition educator, and managed two research teams focused on improving food systems in rural and underserved communities. Most recently, she spent two years working as the Program Coordinator for the Accountable Health Communities project at the Baltimore City Health Department. In this role, she served as a project manager, working to improve health outcomes by addressing social determinants of health in clinical settings, and managed BCHD’s public resource directory, CHARMcare.