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About Miriam Avins

Miriam is an award-winning advocate whose focus on values, sustainability, and racial equity can help your organization bring its best self to projects grounded in complex and divergent ideas.

Miriam is an:

  • Advocate who secured 5+ legal and policy changes at the city and state levels to support sustainability and civic life. Substantial experience in navigating City government systems.

  • Experienced nonprofit leader: founder and 12-year executive director of Baltimore Green Space.

Her experience includes:

  • 15+ years of academic and trade editing, bringing clarity to complicated topics.

  • 4+ years as Co-chair of Baltimore City Commission on Sustainability.

Miriam is committed to a racial equity perspective that values matching metrics to historic impacts, discerning the appropriate role for herself, and being ready to ask difficult questions.