Arkia Wade

Arkia Wade is the Executive Director and Founder of Neighborhood Companions Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to improving the quality of life in Turner Station, a historic African American community in Baltimore County.

As President of the Baltimore County Arts Guild Board and Treasurer of the Turner Station Conservation Teams, Arkia promotes cultural and community revitalization. She also leads a local Girl Scouts Troop and is an active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Psi Phi Omega Chapter.

Inspired by her grandfather, a trailblazing physician who served Turner Station, Arkia’s work supports the elderly while addressing social and environmental challenges. She holds a BA in Marketing and Sociology from The College of William and Mary and enjoys reading, traveling, and spending time with loved ones.

Carlton Sexton

Carlton is a lifelong resident of Baltimore County, presently living in West Towson, and retired from a career as a diagnostic radiologist at Union Memorial Hospital.

In his community work, he has focused on parks and waterways in the city and in the county, on the Board of Blue Water Baltimore, and on The Lake Roland Nature Council. He has cleaned streams and pulled invasives. He has worked in Development and represented the local Amateur Gardeners Club at the D.C. National Affairs and Legislation Meeting.

Although he and his wife Betsy travel to Oakland, California for four months a year to be with their two sons and four grandchildren, his environmental home is Baltimore. He wants to help NeighborSpace succeed in bringing the fascinating and rejuvenating natural world of suburban parks to his neighbors.