Michael Bierut is a partner in the New York office of the international design consultancy Pentagram. His clients at Pentagram have included the New York Times, Saks Fifth Avenue, the Robin Hood Foundation, MIT Media Lab, Mastercard, Princeton University, the New York Jets, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. As a volunteer to Hillary Clinton’s communications team, he designed the H logo that was ubiquitous throughout the campaign.

Mary Chandler is Vice President of Corporate Responsibility at Cummins Inc. and C.E.O. of the Cummins Foundation. At Cummins, Chandler has led the development of significant global community programs including Cummins Powers Women, a global community initiative committed to the advancement and prosperity of women and girls around the world.

Jorge Otero-Pailos is one of the leading thinkers defining the new field of “experimental preservation,” Otero-Pailos’ work on historic monuments has been commissioned and exhibited widely, from the Venice Biennale to the Victoria and Albert Museum. He is director and professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture in New York.

Susan Saarinen, daughter of architect Eero Saarinen and sculptor Lily Swann Saarinen, is an artist, designer, and artisan comfortable working in many different media. Profoundly influenced by her early years, she holds degrees in Fine Arts (weaving and ceramics) and Landscape Architecture. Her firm, Saarinen Landscape Architecture, concentrates on environmentally appropriate projects.

Eric Saarinen is a director, cameraman, and member of both the Director’s Guild of America and the American Society of Cinematographers. Saarinen co-founded Plum Productions and went on to shoot many award-winning commercials. As cinematographer and co-producer, he helped create the documentary Eero Saarinen, The Architect Who Saw the Future, exploring the complicated life and career of his famous father.

Susana Torre is an architect and critic and the first woman to participate in the Cummins Foundation Architecture Program in Columbus. Women in American Architecture. A Historic and Contemporary Perspective, the exhibition and book she curated and edited in 1977, is considered a game-changer regarding the position of women in both the discipline and the profession.