Staff, board, and partners

Staff, board,
and partners

Our Staff

Lynette Sever,
Operations Manager

Recruited in the winter of 2021, Lynette has spent almost a decade working for various non-profit projects in the Baltimore City area providing technical assistance and operations support. Her experience in operations work stateside and marketing work in central Europe provides a different perspective to the work of Baltimore Green Space. Lynette graduated from Notre Dame of Maryland University with a Bachelor's in Integrated Marketing and Communications, minor in Business.

Lynette is a dynamic and flexible asset to the team. Born in Detroit, with having lived in Hungary and Brazil, she is happy to call Baltimore home. She enjoys long walks, reading mystery and action novels, travel, and spending time with her cat, Hampton, and dog, Bodie.

Sarah D'Adamo,
Preservation Manager

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Sarah D'Adamo leads the programming and site support related to green space preservation in the city as well as garden stewardship. Sarah grew up in Catonsville and then spent many years living and working abroad before returning to the area and claiming Baltimore city as her home in 2015. As part of her career in secondary and postsecondary education, often working with international students, Sarah completed a PhD in Cultural Studies in 2022 that focused on higher education as social infrastructure in the US and Canada. This long-term interest in infrastructure also extends into urban ecology, botany, local agriculture, mutual aid and land-based history and rehabilitation. Sarah has become an active member of Baltimore's urban agriculture community since 2019. She has been a core member of two green spaces preserved by Baltimore Green Space, Hidden Harvest Farm in the Greenmount West neighborhood and Ash Street Garden in Hampden.

Through those spaces Sarah has pursued community organizing and partnership-based community led development, food distribution, ecological education and youth outreach in the city. You can often find Sarah in one of these gardens or at another of the city's farms, or walking in the city's forests, trails, and along the Jones Falls, where she is an avid birder.

Thomas McCarty,
Forest Assistant

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Thomas McCarty supports forest stewardship, ecological restoration, and community engagement across Baltimore City’s urban forest patches. He manages three community-based science projects—the heat monitor bike study, dendrometer band study, and wildlife camera trap study—designed to connect residents with urban ecology and foster community-led conservation.

Originally from Columbia, Maryland, Thomas served in the Peace Corps in Sénégal as a Forestry and Environment Extension Agent, an experience that deepened his commitment to engaging communities in ecological preservation and sustainable practices. He has also studied and lived abroad in Malaysia, Taiwan, and Indonesia as a YES Abroad Scholar, Boren Scholar, and Critical Language Scholar. Thomas holds two bachelor’s degrees in Geography and Environmental Studies (GES) and Global Studies from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, with minors in Chinese and French. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, French, (Kedah) Malay, Indonesian, and Seereer (Siin), and conversational in Wolof. Outside of work, he enjoys gardening and exploring Baltimore’s forests and trails.