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MEET JOAN LYONS, AICP
With a passion to improve the infrastructure of cities at the local, regional, national, and international level and implement successful projects, Joan Lyons is a committed certified planner with experience in North Carolina, Colorado, the Netherlands, and Louisiana. Her experience in the profession centers around the fields of transportation (bicycle, pedestrian, multimodal, transit, rail, micro mobility, and Transportation Demand Management (TDM)), affordable housing, accessibility (ADA), social justice, sustainability, climate, historic preservation, and participatory planning in communities.
Accolades:
During her time in the profession, she has been recognized for her work by the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals as the Private Sector Professional of the Year in 2025, the Women in Transportation Seminar (WTS) Activist/Community Organizer Award in 2022, and received the Association for Commuter Transportation (ACT) 40 Under 40 Award in 2020.
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