Portrait of Allan Co
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Program Director, Centre for Public Impact

Allan Co

  • 2024
  • Creative Bureaucracy Festival

Allan is a Program Director for CPI North America. He brings over 15 years of experience implementing and managing community-engaged design and urban development projects focused on racial equity, social justice, and anti-displacement through creating community spaces for non-profits, affordable housing development, and community-control-based planning.

Allan's career has centered on delivering high-quality programs and projects by designing and implementing inclusive, ground-up community engagement strategies. This has helped to drive local buy-in while cultivating government partnership through best practices in urban planning, fluency in complex financial systems, and the development of innovative funding models.

Before CPI, Allan managed large affordable housing development and community capital projects at organizations in New York, including Enterprise Community Partners, Hester Street, and Breaking Ground. He is an licensed architect, member of the AIA and an AICP-certified planner.