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.

Thomas Brown, Vice President. Mr. Brown joined Trinity Financial, Inc. in 2015 and serves as Vice President of Development, overseeing the operations of the Trinity Financial New York office. He possesses significant experience in affordable/mixed-income housing and has successfully overseen the development of several complex real estate projects in some of the most distressed areas of New York City. Prior to joining Trinity, Mr. Brown was the Director of Housing Development for the Acacia Network, one of the largest housing, economic development and social service organizations in the Northeast. Before joining Acacia, Mr. Brown worked at the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), overseeing the development of projects financed through various funding programs. In addition to possessing extensive experience in working with New York City and New York State agencies, Mr. Brown maintains excellent relationships within the banking and syndication communities. Mr. Brown holds both a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s Degree from New York University.

Having joined Trinity in 2014, Christoph Stump is a Vice President of Design and Construction, managing all technical aspects of development. With over 20 years of experience in the design and development of affordable housing projects in the metropolitan New York and Boston areas, Mr. Stump focuses on Passive House and high-efficiency, all-electric buildings. He is experienced in Low Income Housing Tax Credit-, Brownfield Tax Credit- and Historic Tax Credit developments and is a member of the American Institute of Architects and a LEED Accredited Professional.

Miriam’s passion for affordable housing brought her to Sol Housing in 2018 after more than 20 years working for Dekker/Perich/Sabatini (D/P/S) in Albuquerque. As a licensed Architect, she uses her experience with entitlements, affordable housing projects, construction administration, and design to support Sol Housing’s mission to create exceptional housing communities. Miriam’s coordination and communication as a project manager helps lead the Sol Housing team from funding applications through placing housing communities in service.