Anna Laybourn, FAICP

Director of Collaboration

Anna is a Principal at Design Workshop, an urban design, planning, and landscape architecture firm with offices in Aspen, Colorado, and five other cities. Anna’s diverse experiences in community, regional, and land planning is united by a focus on people and the planet. She forges application of natural and social sciences for projects such as parks and open space master plans, transportation infrastructure urban design, resilient neighborhood plans, and development proposals.

Anna specializes in establishing innovative processes for public engagement and has a reputation for her commitment to building equity for underserved populations through participatory design shaping physical environments. The power of youth to share a different perspective, envision possibilities, and be champions of change is a force she seeks to instill in the profession and communities. On this topic, she has been a featured speaker at the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures summit and received honors such as an Award of Excellence in Research from the American Society of Landscape Architecture.

Anna is past Vice-Chair of APA’s Small Town and Rural Division, Board of APA Colorado and Awards Program Chair, and Mountain Town and Resort Planner Summit Committee. Degrees include Master of City and Regional Planning from the Ohio State University and Bachelor of Science in Environmental Design from the University of Minnesota. Anna’s projects have been honored with more than 30 awards.