President's Club - Transportation

About the Event

This event will feature three local transportation leaders who will be discussing an overview of Southwest Florida's transportation challenges and opportunities. Transportation and its convenience are key components to the quality of life in Southwest Florida. With an influx of new residents, there are foreseen issues we need to address, discuss and plan for as a community.

President’s Club connects community leaders from organizations in Lee, Collier and Charlotte Counties so we can work together for a bright future. Attend our exclusive series of roundtable conversations to learn about issues and projects that will impact our region in the long term, including workforce housing, water quality, infrastructure and more.

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About the Speakers

D'Juan Harris was born and raised in the Florida Panhandle town of Quincy, Florida. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree from Florida A&M University and a Master of Science in Urban and Regional Planning from Florida State University. He worked as a Health Planner for five years before relocating to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex to work as a Transportation Planner for the Dallas County Department of Public Works.

D’Juan relocated back to Florida in 2014 and began his career with the Florida Department of Transportation as a Community Planning Liaison assigned to Lee County and Charlotte County within FDOT’s District 1. He served in this capacity for four years before becoming a project manager in the district’s newly established Southwest Area Office of Project Management on Daniels Parkway in Fort Myers. His role in the project management office was to ensure the design phase of local and state funded projects effectively progressed through the design phase.

D’Juan began his new role as the Charlotte County – Punta Gorda Metropolitan Planning Office (MPO) Director in November 2021. He is a passionate and avid advocate of progressing multimodal transportation projects from “concept to concrete.

Don Scott serves as the Executive Director of the Lee County Metropolitan Planning Organization. He is responsible for managing and overseeing a variety of short and long range transportation plans and projects to improve mobility in Lee County.

Don has over 32 years of transportation planning experience working in the public and private sectors. Prior to joining the Lee County MPO, his experience included working for Collier County Transportation, PBS&J and FDOT in Tampa and Fort Myers. Don is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.

Anne McLaughlin has served as the Collier MPO Executive Director since January 2016. Prior to that, she served as the Statewide Planning Manager for NMDOT for eight years, as the Planning Director for the City of Santa Fe for six, and in various other capacities in community and regional planning and urban design. Ms. McLaughlin has an MA in Architecture from the University of New Mexico.

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