Ann Beha, FAIA, is best known for championing preservation and adaptive use in dialogue with contemporary design. Her design work reconsiders historic and modernist resources in civic, cultural, academic, and community settings nationally and internationally. Ann is senior collaborating architect with annum architects (formerly Ann Beha Architects)  and works independently, and with emerging practices. Ann has led and delivered award winning projects at MIT, Harvard, and civic, arts, and educational institutions. She was Design Principal for the renewal and expansion of Gropius’ US Embassy in Athens, is collaborating on Paul Rudolph’s first academic building, the Jewett Arts Center, and has taught at Yale University as the Louis I Kahn Visiting Professor of Architecture, and City College of New York. She was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard and is a graduate of MIT and Wellesley.

Claire is a Partner and Cofounder of Unknown Studio. Broadening landscape practice with a background in painting and ecology, Claire seeks to link care, beauty, and collective action, in the hope of leaving our world better than we found it. She has led design and implementation for a diverse portfolio of projects including Governors Island, Druid Lake, North Meadow on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, Baltimore's internationally-renowned Harborplace, Portland Museum of Art, Miami Beach Soundscape Park, and multiple Plans for Longwood Gardens and its award-winning Main Fountain Garden Revitalization, among others. Claire turned to landscape architecture after studying tropical ecology at the renowned Roberto Burle Marx-designed Wilson Botanical Garden and Las Cruces Research Station. Her experience there instilled a belief that Botanical Gardens are uniquely suited to bridge the gap between basic research, applied science, wonder, beauty, and environmental stewardship; a belief she considers a moral imperative. Across all scales, Claire’s work puts physical and social connectivity at the forefront.

David Fixler, FAIA, FAPT, is an architect and lecturer in Architecture, Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, with a focus on conservation.  A graduate of Tufts and Columbia Universities, he has a distinguished record working with historic buildings and precincts for government, cultural and higher education clients.  He is an internationally recognized leader in working with 20th century heritage, and his projects include the renewal of the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and other works of Modern masters including Alvar Aalto, Louis Kahn and Eero Saarinen.  David’s practice increasingly seeks sustainable conservation strategies to repurpose underutilized buildings to further social and environmental equity. A frequent writer and global lecturer on architecture, planning and preservation, David has had his design and written work published internationally in a wide variety of popular, trade and scholarly books and journals. 

Utkarsha Laharia is an architect and architecture critic known for bringing overlooked histories and underrepresented voices into the center of architectural discourse. Her work spans criticism, original research, and cultural storytelling, with bylines in Architectural Record, The Architect's Newspaper, Dwell, Newsweek, American Theatre, Docomomo US, and the Poetry Foundation, among other national and international publications. Based in Chicago, she has been an active force in shaping the city's design conversation — co-researching and curating 1×1 Chicago: Women in Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology's IAWA Center, and the Chicago Women in Architecture 50th Anniversary exhibition at the Chicago Architecture Center. Her original research on a local Chicago architect reflects her commitment to recovering and contextualizing stories that have long gone untold. She is currently at work on her first book.

Cleary Larkin, PhD, RA, is the Director of the Historic Preservation Program and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban & Regional Planning at the University of Florida. She runs the Preservation Institutes Nantucket and St. Augustine, where her research and teaching focuses on the evolution of historic preservation as a discipline, and the intersections of historic preservation with contemporary challenges such as climate change, social justice and affordable housing. Recent research projects include Resilient Heritage Trinidad & Tobago, adaptation planning for the DeMesa Sanchez house (St. Augustine), the West Monomoy neighborhood survey (Nantucket), and the cultural landscapes of “Old Florida.” Cleary Larkin has over twenty years of practitioner experience as a licensed architect, historian and preservation planner. She has worked for Frazier Associates in Staunton, Virginia and Beyer Blinder Belle, Architects & Planners in New York City. 

Michelle G. Magalong, PhD is a scholar-activist committed to elevating the stories of underrepresented peoples and places through historic preservation, planning, and policy. Dr. Magalong is an Assistant Professor in the Historic Preservation program at the University of Maryland's School of Architecture. Planning and Preservation, where she previously served as a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow. She is affiliate faculty in Asian American Studies, American Studies, Center for Global Migration Studies, and Urban Studies and Planning. She served as President and Executive Director for Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation and now serves on its board of directors. Dr. Magalong served on the Experts Advisory Committee for the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP), and currently serves on the board of directors for the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions (NAPC), and the editorial board for The Public Historian, the journal for the National Council on Public History.

Meredith Arms Bzdak, an architectural historian, is a Partner with Mills + Schnoering Architects (Princeton, NJ | Philadelphia, PA) with over thirty years of experience in the fields of architecture and historic preservation. As Associate Graduate Faculty at Rutgers University in the Art History Department, she has taught classes on the development of the modern city (specifically New York and Los Angeles), the preservation of the recent past, and modern Italian architecture. Meredith is the Chair Emeritus of the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions, and the author of Public Sculpture in New Jersey; Monuments to Collective Identity. She holds a BA in Art History from Mount Holyoke College and a PhD in Art History from Rutgers University.

Belmont (Monty) Freeman is the founding principal of Belmont Freeman Architects, an award-winning design firm in New York City, with built work in North America, Europe, and Asia, for a diverse variety of public, institutional and private clients. His firm’s work has been published widely and honored with multiple awards by the American Institute of Architects and other organizations. A prolific author, Monty's essays and reviews have appeared in Places journal, Architectural Record, The Architects' Newspaper, and other publications. He holds a B.A. from Yale and an M.Arch degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Monty has served on the Board of Directors of Storefront for Art & Architecture (ten years as President) and the Society of Architectural Historians, and the Board of Governors of the Association of Yale Alumni. Monty has taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and at Penn’s Weitzman School of Design. An American of Cuban descent, Mr. Freeman has done extensive research, writing, and lecturing on Cuban architecture and culture, as well as leading architectural tours of Cuba for SAH, Docomomo, MoMA, and other groups. Monty recently completed the renovation of a mid-century modern home in Havana as a base for his professional and family activities.

Tonia Moy is the vice president and director of preservation at FAI. She leads all historic and residential projects. Prior to joining FAI in 2004, she served as architectural branch chief for the State Historic Preservation Division (SHPD) and was a trustee at Historic Hawaii Foundation. Her dedication to preservation extends beyond FAI, as she helped establish Docomomo US/Hawaii. Her achievements have been widely recognized within and outside the industry. In 2022, she was awarded the prestigious Frank Haines Lifetime Achievement for her contribution to Hawaii’s preservation community. 

Theodore Prudon is a leading expert on the preservation of modern architecture and a practicing architect in New York City. Dr. Prudon has worked on the terra cotta restoration of the Woolworth Building, the exterior restoration of the Chrysler Building, and of a 1941 Lescaze townhouse in Manhattan. Dr. Prudon teaches preservation at Columbia University and Pratt Institute. He is the recipient of a Graham Foundation Individual grant for his book “Preservation of Modern Architecture.” He is the founding President of Docomomo US and a board member of Docomomo International.

Richard W. Southwick, FAIA, is Partner Emeritus at Beyer Blinder Belle. Inspired by the time-honored qualities of historic design, materials, and craftsmanship, he has dedicated his career to finding new life for older structures. A specialist in preservation, Richard has guided the revitalization of many of New York's most celebrated historic buildings and sites, as well as international sites of cultural significance. Much of his work involves civic and institutional projects that provide lasting and meaningful public benefit. Building upon the legacy of Beyer Blinder Belle's pioneer preservationist, architect James Marston Fitch, Richard greatly expanded the capabilities and influence of the firm’s historic preservation practice in his 40 years at the firm. Richard (a self-professed modernist at heart) has developed a particular expertise in restoring modern landmarks at New York City’s metropolitan airports including the TWA and the Marine Air Terminals, and the seminal Art Moderne Administration Building at Newark Airport.