Carol R. Johnson, FASLA, is the founder and chairman emeritus of Carol R. Johnson Associates, Inc. For more than 50 years she has maintained a diversified professional practice in the areas of landscape architecture and site planning.  She has overseen projects in the U.S. and abroad that involve site development, open space and recreation planning, master planning, and urban development for municipalities, schools, colleges and universities, corporations, and public agencies.

Between 1966 and 1973, Carol taught at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She has lectured at many colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad. She is also a frequent panel participant and commentator on landscape design issues.

Carol serves on the board of designators for the George B. Henderson Foundation and on the Massachusetts Trustees of Reservations landscape and historic buildings advisors committee. She is also a trustee for the Hubbard Educational Trust (founded to further education in landscape architecture throughout the U.S.). For 10 years she was a city of Boston civic design commissioner. 

A graduate of Wellesley College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Carol is the recipient of honorary degrees from the Boston Architectural College, Wentworth Institute of Technology, and Gettysburg College.