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Senior Managing Principal
Circlepoint
Laguna Niguel, California
Susan J. Harden, FAICP, Senior Managing Principal with Circlepoint, has a broad background in community development, engagement, and planning. For over twenty-seven years, she has built her career around community-based planning and visioning, striving to create a network of healthier, more livable communities, downtowns, and neighborhoods. She has provided community engagement and planning services to public and private sector clients across the country. Susan is the co-author of “Placemaking on a Budget”, designed as a handbook for community members to enhance sense of place. She was appointed to the California Planning Roundtable in 2012, an organization of experienced planning professionals whose mission is to provide a forum for prominent planners to exercise creativity and leadership. She is a member of the Advisory Board for the Department of Urban Planning & Public Policy at UCI where she is also an adjunct faculty member teaching a neighborhood revitalization and engagement course in the graduate program.
Prior to her career as a planning and engagement consultant, Susan volunteered with the Peace Corps in Senegal, West Africa and with AmeriCorps in Kansas City. Her passion has always been, and continues to be, involving communities in protecting and improving their physical, natural, and social environments.
Saturday, April 1, 2023
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM CDT
Thursday, April 27, 2023
3:30 PM – 4:15 PM CDT