We’re excited to announce the faculty for our upcoming walkability workshop series for decision-makers: Making Streets for Everyone!
As a reminder, the course starts March 20, 2026, and is a paid opportunity that will run for four sessions and connect students with leading transportation, planning, and walkability experts. Learn more and enroll here.
Ian Lockwood – Livable Transportation Engineer, Toole Design
Ian is a recognized national leader in sustainable transportation policy and urban design. As a former partner in the Orlando-based Glatting Jackson (which later became AECOM), Ian led a wide variety of transportation projects aimed at making communities more walkable, bikeable, and transit-friendly. He also served as the City Transportation Planner for the City of West Palm Beach, where he transformed state arterial roads, local roads, and the City’s approach to parking to help the city overcome its blighted condition and evolve into an economically and socially successful city.
Ian’s current work includes walkability projects, restoring one-way streets to two-way, taming arterials, shared spaces, policy reform, and designing main streets, campuses, and downtowns.
Abdullahi Abdulle – Founder and CEO, HumanizeMN and America Walks Board Member
Abdullahi is a transportation planner, veteran of the Minnesota Army National Guard, and city of New Brighton Council Member. As a Council Member, he pushes for the implementation of livability initiatives ranging from suburban transportation options and affordable housing to sustainability and climate adaptation policies. He played an instrumental role in establishing New Brighton’s first diversity, equity, and inclusion policy; paid parental leave; a climate action plan; lowered speed limits; a complete streets policy; and improved housing conditions, among other important initiatives.
As an immigrant from Somalia, Abdullahi comes from a culture of walking and walkability. He has a master’s degree in urban planning and a bachelor’s degree in construction management and business administration from Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Andy Clarke – Director of Strategy, Toole Design
Andy has been at the forefront of the bicycling and walking movement in the U.S. and Europe for over three decades. He has spent his career trying to improve, analyze, and explain complex national transportation policies, programs, and procedures so that state and local agency staff and community groups can create more bicycle-friendly and walkable communities.
Before assuming the role of Director of Strategy at Toole Design, Andy served for 12 years as President of League of American Bicyclists, during which time the League’s Bicycle Friendly Community Program and National Bike Summit emerged as critical road maps to the creation of more walkable and bikeable communities. He served as Executive Director of the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals and was Secretary General of the European Cyclists’ Federation.
Paulina Baeza – Senior Planner, INCOG and America Walks Board Member
Paulina is an architect from Puebla, Mexico, with a master’s degree in urban management, land valuation, and planning from Barcelona, Spain. Paulina is currently a Senior Planner for INCOG, Tulsa’s Metropolitan Planning Organization, where she oversees the development of small area plans. She also works in the development of policy and design proposals, public participation strategies, placemaking, sustainable development, and planning for inclusive communities.
Paulina teaches a course on urban and regional transportation planning at the University of Oklahoma Urban Design Studio and lectures long-distance at the Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico.
David Dixon – Vice President, Urban Places Fellow at Stantec and America Walks Board Member
David leads planning and urban design for Stantec’s Urban Places. This interdisciplinary initiative integrates planning, design, smart mobility, real estate development, smart cities, and related disciplines to help communities benefit from accelerating demographic, economic, and technological changes.
The American Institute of Architects praised David for “a lifetime of … significant achievement in [creating]… livable neighborhoods, vibrant civic spaces, and vital downtowns” when awarding him the Thomas Jefferson Medal, its highest honor for achievement in the public sphere. Naming him to its Hall of Fame, Residential Architecture called David “the person we call when we have questions about cities.”
David’s work focuses on the power of walkability to unlock urban opportunity.
He is the co-author of Urban Design for an Urban Century and co-editor of Suburban Remix: Creating the Next Generation of Urban Places.
Lawrence D. Frank, Ph.D., AICP, CIP, ASLA – Professor in Sustainable Transportation and Public Health at the University of British Columbia, President of Urban Design 4 Health, Inc., and America Walks Board Member
Dr. Frank is a Professor in Sustainable Transportation and Public Health at the University of British Columbia and President of Urban Design 4 Health, Inc. He specializes in the interaction between land use, travel behavior, air quality, and health, as well as the energy use and climate change impacts of urban form policies.
He coined the term “walkability” in the mid 90’s, and his work has been cited over 20,000 times: Thompson and Reuters lists him in the top 1% globally as a highly cited researcher (2014, 2015, 2016).
He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and reports and the two leading books: Heath and Community Design and Urban Sprawl and Public Health. Dr. Frank works directly with local, regional, provincial or state, and federal agencies to help translate results from leading edge research into practice based tools.
Arlis Reynolds – Costa Mesa Council Member and America Walks Board Chair
Arlis Reynolds, a graduate of America Walks’ Walking College, has been a leading advocate for walkability in Costa Mesa, California. She helped develop this course because of her own experience as a city councilmember in Costa Mesa, to support elected and agency officials in governmental service in learning how to make a difference in changing local transportation policies and culture.
Mike McGinn – Executive Director, America Walks
Mike got his start in local politics as a neighborhood activist pushing for walkability. He founded a non-profit focused on sustainable and equitable growth and then was elected Mayor of Seattle. He brings his experience at the intersection of policy and politics to support those trying to make transformative change.
