Joel Dixon

Joel Dixon is Co-Founder and Principal of Urban Oasis Development, a real estate development company focused on residential and commercial projects intown Atlanta.  He oversees Business Development & Community Development along with Investor Relations.

Joel has been involved in both market rate and affordable housing development with strong community-based support and mobilizing private and public sector resources.  Having been raised in westside Atlanta public housing (former John Hope/University Homes), he understands the city and is well-connected with Atlanta’s business and grassroots community leadership.

Joel is a graduate of the Urban Land Institute’s prestigious Center for Leadership (CFL) and remains an active ULI member. He is a graduate of Invest Atlanta’s Community Builders 1.0 Program and he serves as faculty member for Incremental Development Alliance, a not-for-profit alliance of practitioners who train small developers, helping citizens strengthen their own neighborhoods and helping city champions get the development their community wants.

Joel has a B.S. in Symbolic Systems (Human-Computer Interaction/AI) from Stanford University and Certificate of Mandarin Chinese from Beijing Language and Culture University.