Justin Tirsun

传：Justin Tirsun is an AICP planner and Vice President of Neighborhood Investment and Community Engagement at CNE. His job includes managing community engagement, leadership building, policy initiatives, localized investment strategy, and outcome measuring. Justin is a certified city planner with experience working in both the public and private realm. He started in architecture and worked for a nonprofit architecture firm along the Texas/Mexico border. He moved to Chattanooga over a decade ago for a job with the City of Chattanooga as a senior planner. He has run a private planning firm that worked with cities as big as 1 million people and as small as 10,000 or less. He was raised in Texas and went to Texas A&M for a Bachelor's in Environmental Design. He left Texas to work and study in New Jersey, where he received his Master's in City and Regional Planning. Justin is driven by a sense of duty. That duty shows through in his desire to help neighborhoods through investment, stronger policies and community building.