Professor, University of California, Berkeley, City and Regional Planning, Berkeley, CA, c. 2008;

McDonald served as a juror on the 12th Great Places Awards (2009), "Places: Forum of Design for the Public Realm;" this competition was organized by EDRA, the Environmental Design Research Association, in cooperation with Metropolis Magazine. Other jurors included David Lake, of Lake/Flato Architects, Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, Lawrence Speck, Page Sutherland Page, Architects, William Sullivan, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign;