Jackie Davis is an experienced community-minded multifamily housing architect, with over ten years of experience in both the Pacific Northwest and Chicago. She has utilized her time and passion within her career and volunteer efforts to serve people in one of their greatest areas of need: safe, stable, and healthy affordable housing and supportive services. Jackie also has training and experience in interdisciplinary and community engagement to bring about the best ideas from all stakeholder groups and individual community members.  

At Canopy, she has led participatory workshops with the Native American Advisory Counsil for Full Circle and Visionary Venture’s housing project, Jigzibik in Irving Park; as well as extensive interviews with a Trauma Informed Design lens for a domestic violence shelter and supportive office spaces on the West side of Chicago; and a senior housing independent living community renovation with POAH in Harvey, Illinois, amongst other efforts. 

Jackie is a registered architect and AIA member in the state of Illinois, NCARB certified, a WELL Accredited Professional, has a SEED certificate (Social Economic Environmental Design) and has been trained in the Pomegranate Method of facilitation. Jackie was a key steering committee member for the City of Chicago – Department of Housing’s five-year Housing Plan update in 2023 with a specific focus on racial equity and social justice. In 2024, she was selected among qualified mid-level career female architects in Chicago to participate in a six-month Leadership Cohort through the Chicago Women in Architecture (CWA) Foundation. 

She is heavily involved in the leadership and local ministry of her church, Park Community Church Hyde Park, and in her weekly rhythms she enjoys communing with friends and family over shared meals and exploring Chicago neighborhoods. She’s passionate about the mentorship of young BIPOC and women architects as well as advancing more equitable and sustainable affordable housing across Chicago and the nation.