Chris Daemmrich is a designer and organizer raised in Austin, Texas, on Tonkawa land. He has worked in architectural, development, advocacy and political organizations in New Orleans, across Louisiana, and throughout the US. Chris studied architecture and political science on Chitimacha, Choctaw and Houma land at Tulane University, graduating in 2017 with a master's degree in architecture and a bachelor's degree in political science.
Chris is a National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) Project Pipeline mentor and serves on the boards of NOMA Louisiana and of the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans. From 2021 to 2023, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Design Thinking at Tulane’s Phyllis M. Taylor Center. In his teaching and through the Collaborative Design Workshop, a design justice education, facilitation and advocacy practice he founded in 2019, Chris prepares students and professionals to challenge unjust systems. Chris has lived in New Orleans since 2012.
Chris is inspired in his work by his grandmother, Ellen Loeb, a public schoolteacher in Montgomery, Alabama, and by her father, Isidore Green, owner of a retail clothing store in downtown Bessemer, Alabama in the early 20th century.