Who We Are
Architects. Urban Planners. Social Designers. Artists. Community Organizers. Neighbors. The NDC family is big, diverse, and connected by a love of place.
Board of Directors
We are passionate neighborhood advocates with a range of skills and experience and big dreams for the built environment.
Kristina Williams, Charles Village Benefits District, President
Jimmy Leonard, Living Design Lab, Vice President
Michael Bainum, ReBuild Metro
Alexa Bertinelli, Civil Justice, Inc.
Sarah Bowley, Marks Thomas/Moseley Architects
Anthony Cataldo, Baltimore City Dept. of Planning
Kristi Dalrymple, T. Rowe Price
Sonja Ewing, The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission
Stacy Freed, Baltimore City Housing
Garrick Good, Northeast Housing Initiative
Tracy Gosson, Sagesse, Inc.
Jen Horton, Baltimore County's Department of Economic and Workforce Development
Katie Levy, Office of the Attorney General
Erika McClammy, McClammy & Associates, LLC
Jerryn McCray, Architect
Wendi Redfern-Curtis, ReBuild Metro
Giam Shoemaker-Trinh, AECOM
Ben Stone, Smart Growth America
Dustin Watson, inPLACE Design
Lauren Wilson, National Building Museum
Staff
With decades of experience, the NDC team brings design chops, focused listening, and an abiding commitment to participatory design to each project.
Katryna Carter
Program Manager
Baltimore City Office
kcarter@ndc-md.org
(410) 777-5644
Katryna heads the Baltimore office’s Community Design Works program, connecting passionate designers with dedicated neighborhood groups to advance community-based design solutions. She is an experienced project manager with a background in and passion for using design and creative placemaking in service of social change. Katryna has more than a decade of design experience, working across non-profit, commercial and government sectors. She holds a Bachelors of Architecture degree from Howard University and Masters in Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. Outside of the office, you can find Katryna dancing her heart out to 90s hip-hop and soulful house music.
Maura Dwyer
VISTA Volunteer
Baltimore City Office
mdwyer@ndc-md.org
Maura Dwyer is a northeast Baltimore native, and a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art with a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture. For the past several years, she has worked with mural collective, Spectrum Murals, to transform education spaces into interactive learning environments through visual design. In addition, she has taught mural workshops across Maryland through Young Audiences, and participated in Baltimore City’s annual arts festivals, including Artscape and Light City. Over the next year, she’ll support NDC’s Place Matters program, which partners with community leaders to build neighborhood capacity. In her free time, you can find her volunteering, visiting art shows, lectures, and learning more about the history of Baltimore.
Jennifer Goold
Executive Director
Baltimore City & Prince George’s County Offices
jgoold@ndc-md.org
Jennifer Goold joined the Neighborhood Design Center in 2012 after more than a decade of work in cultural resources management, historic preservation, development and planning. At NDC, she directs all aspects of the center’s operations including staff, programs, outreach, and fundraising. A Baltimore resident since 1993, she has been involved in many of the city’s largest historic building rehabilitations, including the American Can Company, Silo Point and Tide Point. She received a BS in Interior Design from Indiana University and an MS in Historic Preservation from Columbia University. Hailing from Boone County Indiana, Jen’s early years included 10-year 4H membership including winning the title of master showman.
Merrell Hambleton
Project Manager, Signal Station North
Baltimore City Office
mhambleton@ndc-md.org
(914) 643-5195
Merrell leads NDC's NEA-supported Signal Station North, a two-year creative placemaking initiative rooted in building access and equity through public space lighting. Previously, Merrell produced public art projects with the artist Steve Powers and the New York-based nonprofit Creative Time. She has a dual MA in Social Design and Critical Studies from MICA and BA in History from Columbia University.
Briony Hynson
Deputy Director
Baltimore City Office
bhynson@ndc-md.org
(301) 830-5219
As Deputy Director, Briony leads development, design leadership and engagement initiatives at NDC. Briony started in her role at NDC in 2013, after completion of the Robert W. Deutsch Social Design Fellowship at Maryland Institute College of Art. The lynchpin of her work is understanding community and the shared built environment to leverage positive social change. Previously, as the founding creative director of Honfleur Gallery, Briony employed varied approaches to build creative capacity via revitalization efforts in Washington DC’s Ward 8. Hynson holds a BFA in Sculpture from Alfred University and an MA in Social Design from MICA.
Yasha Magarik
Program Coordinator
Prince George’s County Office
ymagarik@ndc-md.org
(301) 850-1462
Yasha is the Program Coordinator for Prince George’s County’s Right Tree, Right Place Program. He has a Master’s of Forestry from Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, where he planted trees with the New Haven Urban Resources Initiative, researched urban forestry mensuration with the US Forest Service Philadelphia Urban Field Station, and created an urban forest management plan for the Hill neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. Previously, he worked in California for the Woolman Semester School, the Leichtag Foundation / Community Health Improvement Partners, and Coastal Roots Farm on a variety of food system, farming, and agroforestry-related projects. When not at work, he loves biking, bonsai, and bread-baking, and can sometimes be caught rendering landscapes and buildings into incoherent drawings in a little black sketchbook. His favorite tree is Ginkgo biloba.
Nick Maletta
Forestry Technician
Prince George’s County Office
nmaletta@ndc-md.org
Nick Maletta is the Forestry Technician for the Prince George’s County Right Tree Right Place program. Besides his urban forestry work at NDC, Nick is pursuing a graduate degree in Environmental Management from the University of Maryland, University College. He was recently awarded a fellowship with the Maryland Forestry Foundation to assist in the creation of an Urban Forestry Careers Camp for mid-Atlantic high school students.
Rachel McNamara
Program Manager
Baltimore City Office
rmcnamara@ndc-md.org
(301) 830-8519
Rachel’s deep knowledge of and love for plants lead her from a young age to pursue Landscape Architecture. She studied at Penn State, graduating with a Bachelors of Landscape Architecture, and is a certified arborist as well as a certified Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional. As Program Manager of Stormwater Savvy at thePrince George’s office, Rachel leads communities in landscape master planning with a stormwater and community-enhancement focus, and designs public amenities such as stormwater pond landscapes and rain gardens. Rachel spends her free time reading, doing yoga, running/swimming/biking with her dog Kona, and enjoying Baltimore’s food scene.
Sophie Morley
Program Coordinator
Prince George’s County Office
smorley@ndc-md.org
(301) 830-8251
Sophie is an architect with a background in inclusive design and international development. She came to NDC from her home city of London where she was working on affordable housing projects for charities, social landlords and Councils. Since 2010 she has been collaborating with the architecture organization Architecture sans Frontieres leading projects in Ghana, South Africa and Sierra Leone. She has taught architecture at several UK universities and her teaching focuses on equitable practice and social justice in the built environment. When not in the office Sophie likes to travel and ride her bike.
Taryn Myers
HR Specialist
Baltimore City Office
tmyers@ndc-md.org
(410) 793-4138
Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Taryn puts the charm in charm city. She received her B.A. and M.S. at Towson University, and is currently working on earning her Ph.D. at Howard University in their Department of Communication, Culture, and Media Studies. She is excited to join the NDC team to manage their HR and administrative processes. She brings ten years of experience working in Development for nonprofit organizations in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Her pie-in-the-sky dream is to be able to use her work to amplify the voices of the most marginalized populations, whether in the classroom or in the community, by centering their stories and experiences. In her free time, Taryn spends an inordinate number of hours watching Bob’s Burger.
Allie O’Neill
Program Manager
Prince George’s County Office
aoneill@ndc-md.org
(301) 830-6425
Allie believes design has the power to improve lives, spark civic participation, and create equitable, resilient communities. Her architectural design background brings a unique perspective to her community design practice, rooted in participatory processes and design justice. Allie leads the Community Design Works program in Prince George's County, connecting interested professionals and motivated community members to complete a wide range of projects. Since 2016, Allie has served on the board of the Association for Community Design. Outside of the office, you can find her biking around the DC area.
Dana Puzey
Enterprise Development Director
Prince George’s County Office
dpuzey@ndc-md.org
(301) 850-1724
Dana is responsible for securing and managing the grants and contracts at the Neighborhood Design Center for both the Prince Georges County and Baltimore offices. Ms. Puzey began her post graduate career in Baltimore City in 2009, working with residents and communities to identify stormwater problems and site stormwater BMPs. In 2015, Dana joined NDC to oversee the organization’s urban forestry work in Prince George’s County. Her work evolved to include grant and contract management for both offices. Throughout her career, she has focused on program development and financial management. Dana received a Bachelor’s degree from Elon University in Environmental Studies and a Master’s degree from Virginia Tech in Urban and Regional Planning. When she’s not at the office, Dana keeps busy by exploring parks and museums with her young children and husband.
Laura Robinson
Program Coordinator
Prince George’s County Office
lrobinson@ndc-md.org
(301) 850-6697
Laura is a landscape designer with a background in field biology and graphic communication. Her work at the Prince George’s County office focuses on the Arbor Day Every Day program and landscape design and community engagement projects that help increase tree canopy and green spaces in the county. Before NDC, Laura worked in residential design, environmental education, and information technology. She received a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. in Media Arts and Design from James Madison University, and more recently received her Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Maryland. Outside of the office, Laura enjoys walking her two senior dogs, attempting woven art, and hiking in Shenandoah.
Marita Roos
Programs Director
Prince George’s County Office
mroos@ndc-md.org
(301) 270-9673
Marita is a landscape architect and planner who writes, designs, plans, builds and teaches with the aim of enlarging our participation in the urban/natural environment. Marita directs program activities at NDC’s Prince George’s County office and brings a perspective from over twenty years of private and public practice. She holds degrees in biodiversity management from the University of London Wye College and in landscape architecture from the University of Georgia. Outside of NDC, Marita loves to kayak wherever blue herons hang out.