Great Places Awards Judges

Scott Ball is a Senior Project Manager with Duany Plater-Zyberk Architects and Town Planners (DPZ) where he has managed several major post-storm redevelopment efforts along the gulf coast for DPZ.   Scott has been actively engaged in the promotion of the independent living and health of aging adults, and authored the Aging In Place Tool Kit and Lifelong Communities: A Regional Guide to Growth and Longevity for the Atlanta Regional Commission, as well as co-authored the Land-use and Public Health Toolkit for the National Association of Local Boards of Health.  Prior to his work with DPZ, Scott served as The Louisiana Road Home Program’s Director of Rebuilding and Construction Assistance for ICF International where he helped stand up Louisiana’s post-storms recovery programs. Scott also served as the Executive Director of Atlanta’s Community Housing Resource Center where he oversaw the design and construction of over $10,000,000 in development focused primarily on the needs of older, long-term residents in the rapidly gentrifying city. He has worked in a variety of capacities for both architecture and development firms.

Dana Brown is the Chair of AARP’s Livable Communities Council in Louisiana and the current President of the Louisiana Chapter of ASLA with twenty-nine years of experience in environmental & community planning projects related to the use of geographic information systems (GIS) in planning and managing public spaces, infrastructure, and natural resources in California, Arizona, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, and Idaho, and Louisiana. Dana has planned and designed stormwater management systems employing biomimicry, as well as urban spaces, new towns, traditional neighborhood developments (TNDs), planned unit developments (PUDs), office and industrial parks, subdivisions, and major infrastructure facilities in Louisiana, Texas, Arizona, Utah, Florida, California, and Taiwan. She has also developed land management plans for hydroelectric power generation entities, mapping and analyzing dam and flood control levee locations, and modeling flood inundation in the event of dam or levee failures.   Dana’s research, publications and consultation projects reflect her strong commitment to environmental stewardship.

Angela D. Dye, FASLA, LEED®AP, AzAPA
Angela Dye is a licensed landscape architect (Arizona, Colorado, & Utah) with Masters in Landscape Architecture, and Community Development & Planning, from the University of Colorado/Denver and a graduate of Montana State University. She founded A DYE DESIGN, an urban design/planning/landscape architecture firm specializing in context sensitive transportation and transit, site design, and public art-oriented projects. She is the Immediate Past President of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA).

She currently serves as a Vice Chair for Valley Forward Association, is a board member of Friends of the West Valley Recreation Corridor; served as a member of the Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG) Transportation Enhancement Working Group (12 years); served on the City of Phoenix Design Review Standards Committee (4 years); and has been an adjunct professor at Arizona State University. Recent projects include the Central Phoenix/East Valley Light Rail project; Phoenix Convention Center (certified LEED Silver), State Route 179/Sedona All America Road, and Tempe Transportation Center (registered LEED Platinum).

Adam Goldberg, J.D.
Adam works in AARP’s National Office in Washington, D.C. as a Senior Legislative Representative, Government Relations and Advocacy.  As a member of AARP’s Livable Communities Team, Adam works on transportation oriented legislative and regulatory issues on the state and federal levels. 

Prior to joining AARP, Adam worked for Consumers Union, the independent, non-profit publisher of Consumer Reports.  He also served as a legislative assistant to Congressman David Skaggs (D-CO) covering a variety of legislative and regulatory issues, as well as for a federally funded non-profit corporation, and on consumer and public safety issues for a member of the Maryland House of Delegates.  Adam is a graduate of Miami University, with a B.A. in political science and sociology, and holds a J.D. from the Syracuse University College of Law.

Charles Wayne Landry, Ph.D., CFP, CSA
Charles has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Arkansas, is a Certified Financial Planner, holds a Graduate Specialist Certification in Aging from the Department of Applied Gerontology at the University of North Texas, and completed a one-year program in Geriatrics and Gerontology at the University of Texas Medical School. He is a Certified Aging-in-Place Specialist, a Certified Senior Advisor, and was licensed as a Nursing Facility Administrator in the State of Louisiana. Dr. Landry has over thirty-five years experience in the healthcare industry. He has served as a chief Executive Officer in metropolitan, urban and rural community hospitals and has experience as a senior-level officer in a large healthcare system.

He has been on the faculty of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, a special member of the graduate faculty of the University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Galveston, an adjunct faculty member at Texas A&M University at Galveston, an Associate Professor with Our Lady of the Lake University’s MBA program in healthcare administration, and a member of the faculty of the University of Houston Clear Lake lecturing in the Masters of Healthcare Administration Program. Charles was also a faculty member in the Finance Department of the School of Business at the University of South Florida.

Charles is the State President for AARP Louisiana and is a member of the Leadership Committee of the Coalition for Choice, and AARP sponsored organization working to advance the quality and modernization of Louisiana’s Long Term Care system. He also served as a member of the Board of the Alzheimer’s Association-Southern Region and as a Board member of the Council on Aging for Vermillion Parish. Charles served on the Region 4 (parishes of St. Martin, Iberia, Lafayette, Acadia, St. Landry, Vermillion, and Evangeline) Health Care Consortium and Chaired the Long Term Care Committee.

In December 2008, Dr. Landry’s company Mobility Products Depot was given the Business Champion Award by the Louisiana Assistive Technology Access Network in recognition of his business commitment to increase access to assistive technology and make services accessible to all.  Currently, Charles is rolling-out a new organization named Remain Home. Remain Home provides products, services, and expertise designed to make a home accessible, safe, and functional for those who have limited mobility or simply desire to make their living environment meet their changing needs as they age.

Kathryn Lawler, MPP
Kathryn Lawler is on the senior management team for the Atlanta Regional Commission, the Metropolitan Planning Organization and Area Agency on Aging for the greater Atlanta area. In her role as Chief of Staff, she provides support to the agency divisions including transportation, land use, environment, workforce, and local government support and aging. Her primary responsibility is to form strategic partnerships with federal, state and local governments, public and private organizations to transform the region into a more livable community for people of all ages and abilities.

Kathryn has also served as a consultant to local governments, foundations and community based coalitions, interested in effectively organizing to better prepare for the rapidly growing older adult population. Her work specialized in the development of cross disciplinary partnerships, bringing together aging, planning, architecture, public and mental health professionals, hospitals, elected officials and local residents. As both a grantee and a consultant Kathryn worked with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Community Partnership for Older Adults Program. This 40 million dollar investment of the Foundation was structured to help communities develop leadership, innovative solutions and options to meet the needs of older adults over the long term. As a grantee, she was Director of Aging Atlanta, a 50 organization partnership focused on preparing the metro region for the rapid growth in the older adult population. As a consultant she provided technical assistance to the 15 grantees in urban, rural and suburban communities across the country. She assisted with the program’s evaluation, lessons learned and resources that are now available to partnerships across the country.

From 2001 to 2002 she was a fellow at Harvard University’s Joint Center on Housing Studies. Her research focused on the development of health and housing policy to facilitate aging in the community and modernize long term care systems. Ms. Lawler received a bachelor''s degree from the University of Notre Dame and a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University.

Heather Smith
Heather Smith is an urban planner responsible for supporting the Congress for New Urbanism (CNU) member Initiatives and planning the annual Congress program and CNU''s annual transportation summit. CNU is the leading organization promoting walkable, neighborhood-based development as an alternative to sprawl. Heather joined CNU in January 2005. Before joining CNU, she coordinated the Metropolis Plan activities for Chicago Metropolis 2020, a regional planning organization. Prior to working in Chicago she received an American Planning fellowship to advance sustainable development and planning issues in the United States Senate. Heather holds a masters degree in urban planning from Columbia University and a Bachelor''s in Urban Studies and Japanese from Macalester College. Heather is also an adjunct faculty at DePaul University where she teaches New Urbanism and the legacy of Daniel Burnham in the geography department.  She previously worked for the New York City Department of City Planning. Heather enjoys biking to work, sailing, swimming, and kayaking in her free time.