Chris Elisara is an educational pioneer, an entrepreneur, and a champion for urban design that makes people’s lives better as a board member for The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU). He is co-founder of First+Main Films and the Better Cities Film Festival. Through films, he sparks the imagination for revitalizing cities that have lost their way, and he champions urban design and placemaking in his current role as Studio Lead and Senior Fellow for the Ormond Center at Duke University.