We’re excited to announce the college for our upcoming walkability workshop collection for decision-makers: Making Streets for Everybody!
As a reminder, the course begins March 20, 2026, and is a paid alternative that may run for 4 periods and join college students with main transportation, planning, and walkability consultants. Be taught extra and enroll right here.
Ian Lockwood – Livable Transportation Engineer, Toole Design
Ian is a acknowledged nationwide chief in sustainable transportation coverage and concrete design. As a former companion within the Orlando-based Glatting Jackson (which later grew to become AECOM), Ian led all kinds of transportation tasks aimed toward making communities extra walkable, bikeable, and transit-friendly. He additionally served because the Metropolis Transportation Planner for the Metropolis of West Palm Seashore, the place he reworked state arterial roads, native roads, and the Metropolis’s strategy to parking to assist the town overcome its blighted situation and evolve into an economically and socially profitable metropolis.
Ian’s present work contains walkability tasks, restoring one-way streets to two-way, taming arterials, shared areas, coverage reform, and designing principal streets, campuses, and downtowns.
Abdullahi Abdulle – Founder and CEO, HumanizeMN and America Walks Board Member
Abdullahi is a transportation planner, veteran of the Minnesota Military Nationwide Guard, and metropolis of New Brighton Council Member. As a Council Member, he pushes for the implementation of livability initiatives starting from suburban transportation choices and reasonably priced housing to sustainability and local weather adaptation insurance policies. He performed an instrumental function in establishing New Brighton’s first variety, fairness, and inclusion coverage; paid parental go away; a local weather motion plan; lowered velocity limits; an entire streets coverage; and improved housing situations, amongst different vital initiatives.
As an immigrant from Somalia, Abdullahi comes from a tradition of strolling and walkability. He has a grasp’s diploma in city planning and a bachelor’s diploma in development administration and enterprise administration from Minnesota State College, Mankato.
Andy Clarke – Director of Technique, Toole Design
Andy has been on the forefront of the bicycling and strolling motion within the U.S. and Europe for over three many years. He has spent his profession attempting to enhance, analyze, and clarify advanced nationwide transportation insurance policies, packages, and procedures in order that state and native company workers and neighborhood teams can create extra bicycle-friendly and walkable communities.
Earlier than assuming the function of Director of Technique at Toole Design, Andy served for 12 years as President of League of American Bicyclists, throughout which era the League’s Bicycle Pleasant Neighborhood Program and Nationwide Bike Summit emerged as essential highway maps to the creation of extra walkable and bikeable communities. He served as Government Director of the Affiliation of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals and was Secretary Normal of the European Cyclists’ Federation.
Paulina Baeza – Senior Planner, INCOG and America Walks Board Member
Paulina is an architect from Puebla, Mexico, with a grasp’s diploma in city administration, land valuation, and planning from Barcelona, Spain. Paulina is at present a Senior Planner for INCOG, Tulsa’s Metropolitan Planning Group, the place she oversees the event of small space plans. She additionally works within the improvement of coverage and design proposals, public participation methods, placemaking, sustainable improvement, and planning for inclusive communities.
Paulina teaches a course on city and regional transportation planning on the College of Oklahoma City Design Studio and lectures long-distance on the Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico.
David Dixon – Vice President, City Locations Fellow at Stantec and America Walks Board Member
David leads planning and concrete design for Stantec’s City Locations. This interdisciplinary initiative integrates planning, design, good mobility, actual property improvement, good cities, and associated disciplines to assist communities profit from accelerating demographic, financial, and technological adjustments.
The American Institute of Architects praised David for “a lifetime of … important achievement in [creating]… livable neighborhoods, vibrant civic areas, and very important downtowns” when awarding him the Thomas Jefferson Medal, its highest honor for achievement within the public sphere. Naming him to its Corridor of Fame, Residential Structure known as David “the individual we name when now we have questions on cities.”David’s work focuses on the facility of walkability to unlock city alternative.
He’s the co-author of City Design for an City Century and co-editor of Suburban Remix: Creating the Subsequent Era of City Locations.
Lawrence D. Frank, Ph.D., AICP, CIP, ASLA – Professor in Sustainable Transportation and Public Well being on the College of British Columbia, President of City Design 4 Well being, Inc., and America Walks Board Member
Dr. Frank is a Professor in Sustainable Transportation and Public Well being on the College of British Columbia and President of City Design 4 Well being, Inc. He specializes within the interplay between land use, journey habits, air high quality, and well being, in addition to the vitality use and local weather change impacts of city type insurance policies.
He coined the time period “walkability” within the mid 90’s, and his work has been cited over 20,000 occasions: Thompson and Reuters lists him within the prime 1% globally as a extremely cited researcher (2014, 2015, 2016).
He has printed over 200 peer-reviewed articles and studies and the 2 main books: Heath and Neighborhood Design and City Sprawl and Public Well being. Dr. Frank works immediately with native, regional, provincial or state, and federal businesses to assist translate outcomes from forefront analysis into follow based mostly instruments.
Arlis Reynolds – Costa Mesa Council Member and America Walks Board Chair
Arlis Reynolds, a graduate of America Walks’ Strolling Faculty, has been a number one advocate for walkability in Costa Mesa, California. She helped develop this course due to her personal expertise as a metropolis councilmember in Costa Mesa, to assist elected and company officers in governmental service in studying how one can make a distinction in altering native transportation insurance policies and tradition.
Mike McGinn – Government Director, America Walks
Mike received his begin in native politics as a neighborhood activist pushing for walkability. He based a non-profit targeted on sustainable and equitable progress after which was elected Mayor of Seattle. He brings his expertise on the intersection of coverage and politics to assist these attempting to make transformative change.
