Lorna Parkins

Lorna Parkins, FAICP, is Office Executive of the Richmond, Virginia, office for Michael Baker International. In this role, she is focused on accelerating the firm’s growth in the state and Mid-Atlantic Region, capitalizing on her relationships with clients such as the Virginia Department of Transportation, Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation and numerous Metropolitan Planning Organizations.

Ms. Parkins has over three decades of experience in transportation, specializing in the relationships between transportation, land use and economic development. She has performed land use, environmental and economic work on over 40 major investment or feasibility studies and environmental impact documents. She has worked with land use allocation and economic models in the context of alternatives analysis, scenario planning and environmental impact analysis. She has prepared long-range transit and multimodal plans as well as transit corridor studies and transit-oriented development plans. She was responsible for a series of task orders that brought innovation to the statewide multimodal planning process in Virginia, including 2040 scenario planning for autonomous/connected vehicles and shared mobility.

Ms. Parkins earned a Master of Science degree in Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Planning/Urban Affairs from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She is a member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners.