Courtney Turrin

Courtney is Chief Work Officer of Xponent21, a Richmond-based digital marketing and AI strategy agency. She holds degrees from Bucknell, William & Mary, and Yale, where her research focused on neuroscience, comparative psychology, and animal behavior in the field. She has spent her career thinking about how people communicate, make decisions, and adapt -- first in conservation research, now in the overlap between human behavior and emerging technology. She writes about the things that affect how Richmond grows, works, and makes decisions about its future.