2023 Class of Fellows, Jennifer Toole, Maryland Chapter
Toole Design Group, Silver Spring, MD
Jennifer Toole is recognized as one of the most important leaders in multimodal transportation and promoting active transportation through interdisciplinary partnerships. Her impact on the profession is not only through her numerous publications and presentations at local, national, and international forums, but also through her executed works. As president and founder of Toole Design Group, a 280-person firm headquartered in Maryland with 18 branch offices throughout the US and Canada, Jennifer is dedicated to designing communities where walking, bicycling, and taking transit are safe and dignified transportation options for people of all ages, abilities, backgrounds, and incomes. Toole Design Group has planned and implemented over 20,000 miles of bikeways and streetscape projects. It has delivered over 500 state, regional, and local master plans to improve conditions for bicycling and walking. Jennifer has helped to forge a multidisciplinary approach to street design, bringing together landscape architects, engineers, and planners to make streets more walkable, bikeable, transit-friendly places. Jennifer's work has had a profound and lasting impact on communities through built works, but also indirectly through the design manuals she has written that serve as references for nearly every pedestrian and bicycle facility constructed in the US since the early 1990s. She has helped elevate the role of landscape architects and the pivotal role they play in planning and designing complete street transportation systems and the communities they support.
