In addition to being an architect, Jes Deaver is an accomplished writer and speaker connecting design, culture, and ecology to new futures. Located in Houston, Texas, her unflinching voice brings a multifaceted perspective to publications like Texas Architect magazine and The Architect’s Newspaper. Through science fiction short stories and independent research, she proposes resilient futures that ask wild questions to spur imagination.

Deaver worked in film and television for over a decade garnering camera credits on feature films, commercials, music videos, and art exhibits. Her screenplay Drawn was a finalist for Best Screenplay in The Great American Film Festival in 2005 and her short film Mother of Pearls was selected in 2004 to screen in Dallas as part of the Women in Film Competition. In 2020 she wrote and directed the short documentary A Violet Horizon in collaboration with AIA Austin Women in Architecture and filmmaker Gus Bernal. It chronicles gentrification and historic redlining, while uplifting the positive contributions of female architects in Austin, Texas.

She holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Houston and a Bachelor of Science in Radio-TV-Film from the University of Texas at Austin. Deaver is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) and is a Safety Assessment Evaluator on the Texas Disaster Response Team (CalOES).