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Allison Austin is the Director of Community Development and Planning and the Zone Administrator for the City of Centralia. She is a lifelong resident of Centralia and has served the community as a Community Education Coordinator for Kaskaskia College, the Director of the Regional Technology Center in downtown Centralia and most recently, as the Director of Regional Development for the South Central Illinois Regional Planning and Development Commission. Allison earned a Bachelor’s degree in East Asian History from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana in 1990, her first Masters of Business Arts in Organizational Management from University of Phoenix in 2004 and a second Masters of Information Systems Management in 2006, also from University of Phoenix. Allison has extensive experience in economic and community development, grant writing, project management and resource development. She has considered it an honor serving our regional area for over 10 years through these efforts.
Allison is married to Tom Austin, the Bureau of Identification tech at Centralia Correctional Center and a 20 year veteran of the Illinois Department of Corrections and they are the parents to one child, Christopher, 17 and grandparents to Marah Elizabeth.
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