About UHC
Lee Bouchard (ON MATERNITY LEAVE AS OF 3/22/10)
Executive Director
Lee is on maternity leave as of March 22, 2010. While she’s away, please contact President, Dave Hampton or Vice President Anna Glenn.
Lee Bouchard served as Urban Habitat Chicago’s Director of Communications and then transitioned to Executive Director.
She is also an advisory board member and volunteer for Operation Frontline, a child hunger and nutrition program, and taught high school theater production in Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood, through a residency with American Mosaic in 2009. Lee is a strong advocate for developing environmentally, socially, and economically healthy neighborhoods. She is also a strong cycling and fitness advocate, and teaches Nia dance-fitness to seniors and youth. She is also engaged in food access advocacy in Chicago.
Before moving to Chicago in July 2008, Lee worked as an architect in France, China, and Canada, where she founded Architecture for Humanity Toronto. in 2003. She designed multi-family residential developments in all three countries, in addition to museum exhibits, theater sets, and other building types. She has also worked in North and West Africa, and elsewhere in Europe and Asia. She holds a certificate in urban planning, in addition to professional degrees in Architecture from France and the U.S. In 2009, she also studied economics and community development in the College of Urban Planning at the University of Illinois Chicago.