OUR MISSION
Our mission is to work with communities to create sustainable, innovative, and socially responsive designs.
We mobilize architects, designers, and community leaders to use design to expand opportunities and develop solutions to transform our city.
OUR PRACTICE
OACChicago addresses issues of social justice, racial equity, shared resources, and equitable neighborhood development. We work with communities to shift narratives and create pluralistic futures, cocreating with practitioners from the arenas of arts and culture, architecture, planners, social impact design, community activism, and systems change to shape processes and plans and create spaces for inclusive, diverse stakeholders.
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OUR TEAM
Grace Liao
Co-Chair of Board of Directors
Craig Stevenson
Co-Chair of Board of Directors
Andraya Parrish
Co-Director of Outreach
Cage Sebastian Pierre
Co-Director of Special Programs
Cory Stevenson
Co-Director of Development
Daris Jasper
Co-Director of Development
John W. Swain
Co-Director of Communications
Christopher Leake
Co-Director of Communications