Jack Wilson is a teacher, architect and planner who holds a Bachelors degree in Art from Vassar College and a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches courses in Drawing, Architectural Design and Special Topics. He is also a Lecturer at the Thayer School of Engineering where he teaches courses on Integrated Design. Wilson has been teaching at Dartmouth since 1992.

From 1983 to 2003 he worked as an architect and planner for the Dartmouth Office of Facilities Planning. From 2003-2009 his responsibilities included supervision of campus planning as well as project development, architect selection and design review for large scale capital construction and planning projects at Dartmouth.

In addition to teaching Wilson currently has a design and planning practice, Jack Wilson AIA, that includes health care, institutional, commercial and residential projects.

Since the earthquake of 2010 in Haiti Jack has been engaged with faculty and students from Dartmouth on healthcare initiatives, affordable housing, community infrastructure and education projects in Port au Prince, Miragoane and Fond des Blancs, Haiti.