Archives: Firesouls
Letrice Gant
Letrice is a native Baltimorean who works to increase and amplify the peace that already exists there. Nature is important to me because it is a necessary sanctuary for connection, restoration, and rejuvenation. Baltimore Community Mediation Center is important to Letrice because she believes that Baltimore needs and deserves a safe space to have difficult,…
Matthew Boyd
Matthew Boyd is the NetZero Building Operations Director at the American Geophysical Union. He played an instrumental role in the re-development of the building into what it is today. In his role, Matthew oversees the tactical operations that maintain the AGU building as Net Zero building, including the stormwater retention systems and heat-island mitigators that…
Judy Feldt
Judy has enjoyed planting and gardening all her life, making sure to keep her mom’s rose bed weeded as a kid. Today, she is a retired attorney and volunteer archeologist with Anne Arundel County and the state of Maryland. Judy also enjoys gardening, and hiking with a club. I am relaxed being outside in nature,…
Jamie Watts
Jamie is a high school mathematics teacher at Central High School of Clay County. Her school is located just blocks from the Sacred Place, that she utilizes as an outdoor classroom and teaching tool with her students….
Melvin Jadulang
Melvin is a capacity-building strategist, serving underrepresented populations over 15 years via non-profit, academic, commercial, and community organizations. The East Baltimore Midway resident supports inclusive neighborhood revitalization as founder of Boone Street Commons (home of Ujamaa Cove) and establishing the Greater Greenmount Community Association Land Use Committee. As the Graham Projects Director of Operations and…
Dick Williams
Dick began his journey towards becoming a Firesoul back in 2017 when he co-founded a Pollinator Micro-Habitat/Garden Classroom on the Mt. Royal Elementary Middle School campus in his Bolton Hill, Baltimore neighborhood. That project took 15 months to complete and involved partnering and fundraising with a number of local organizations and individuals. Over the next…
Steve Sye
Steve has 12 years of experience working with a global organization that supports sustainable and affordable housing to underserved communities. His interests and efforts also included investment in environmentally friendly communities. Currently, Steve is working to supporting efforts that provide natural sustainable environments that upgrades and empowers communities’ experiences of nature. Nature is important to…
Kendra Hazel
Kendra Hazel was born and raised in Washington, D.C. She is passionate about teaching people how to utilize green spaces for their mental health, and to show them how to sustain with natural resources. Nature is important because it’s so free and liberating. It allows us to explore things in so many ways with no…
Linda Adamson
Linda is a retired educator (elementary teacher and teacher educator). As such, she knows the importance for children’s development and overall wellbeing to have experiences in natural environments. As a 5th grade teacher, I had my students design, install and care for a colonial-style vegetable garden in an unused courtyard of the school property; needless…
Marie Lanier Narváez
Marie is the promotions and marketing coordinator at SIFAT, an international nonprofit community development organization. From helping their training graduates overseas and taking people to serve their projects, to introducing a global awareness to children, youth and young adults, SIFAT strives to help meet basic human needs. For Marie, being in nature always brings vivid…
