Diane Jones Allen, ASLA, PLA, has a Doctorate in Transportation Civil Engineering, a Master of Landscape Architecture, and 27 years of diverse experience in private and public practice focused on the areas of land use design/planning, transportation planning, and large-scale residential and park design projects. She is the director of the Landscape Architecture Program at the University of Texas, Arlington. As principal landscape architect, she has focused on projects that affected the quality of life of community residents, whether it was strategic planning for county/parish development, site planning for public housing, urban design for a new transportation corridor, or design of a community playground. The purpose of the work throughout her professional career has been to have positive effect on the physical environment in which people live. The focus has been to bring equity, access, and enhancement to the quality of life of communities of various scales.