Executive Director, Gensler Architects (she/her)

Ariana is an Architect, property manager, community activist, and artist. She is a Baltimore native who started a community organization pursuing 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.

Member, Kolpeace (he/him)

Kolpeace has impacted numerous community-based projects and events with the intent to bring neighbors, who would’ve otherwise been strangers together through conversation during his riveting interactive live painting sessions and newly found passion for mural storytelling. His work has been exhibited at The Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center in Baltimore, MD, with the HotSauce Artist Collective, Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture in Charleston, SC, Saul Alexander Gallery in SC, and The Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD.