Emily Roush-Elliott
Emily Roush-Elliott is a national leader in rural housing justice and preservation.
She is a founding partner of the Delta Design Build Workshop (Delta DB), a social impact design–build firm advancing equitable housing, municipal capacity, and community driven development in the Deep South. An Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship brought Emily to Mississippi in 2013, and she has since led over $14M in impactful projects.
Emily is a licensed architect and award–winning citizen–designer and serves with AIA’s Housing and Community Development Knowledge Community and Mississippi’s COTE Chapter, as well as chairing the Greenwood Housing Authority Board. She holds a master of architecture from the University of Cincinnati and a bachelor of science in design from Arizona State University. Her practice is defined by the belief that people and places often excluded from national conversations deserve homes, systems, and institutions designed with dignity and care.