Ava Richardson

Ava serves as the Sustainability Director for Baltimore City, MD. She has over a decade of experience leading public health initiatives, advocating for environmental policies, and managing programs designed to address social and racial inequities, and environmental justice. Ava previously served as the Sustainability Manager and a Food Matters Technical Advisor, where she led the implementation of special projects, supported the Commission on Sustainability, and helped to pilot new sustainability programming such as the Farmer’s Market-based food scrap collection pilot. During her time with the city, Ava also served as the ReCAST Project Director at the Baltimore City Health Department, advancing efforts to address decades of trauma in west Baltimore.