Heather Isbell Schumacher is Archivist of the Architectural Archives at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design. She manages processing and cataloging and provides access to more than 400 design-related collections. She aids students in integrating archival research in their work and contributes to the Archives’ public programs and exhibition initiatives. Heather received her master’s degree in public history from Temple University in 2010. Previously she served as Curator of Images at the Delaware Historical Society where she managed photograph and audiovisual collections and produced collections-based content for a variety of regional media outlets including WHYY and Delaware First Media. As an activist archivist, Heather believes that archives cannot and should not be neutral spaces. She is currently serving as a co-curator for the exhibition project What Minerva Built, funded by the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, that examines absences in the historical record and thinks critically about the future of archives and cultural memory.

Fátima Olivieri-Martinez, AIA, is a Principal at the Philadelphia-based, research and planning firm KieranTimberlake. Since joining the firm, Fátima has worked on award-winning projects including the Consortium for Building Energy Innovation at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and the renovation of Harvard Dunster House. Fátima is currently Principal on New York University’s new 181 Mercer, an academic, mixed use building combining academics, athletics, performing arts, and student and faculty residences. She spearheads the design and construction of the building’s lobbies, Commons, and theatres. Fátima is an active member of the design community, lecturing at national conferences such as Living Future, Facades+ and DesignPhiladelphia and sitting on the AIA Philadelphia Board as Director of Design. Her writing has appeared in a variety of online publications. A native of Puerto Rico, Fátima attended the University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture from which she obtained a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Design in 2008. She pursued a Master of Architecture at the University of Virginia graduating in 2010 with honors. In 2019, Fátima received the AIA Philadelphia Young Architect Award, which recognizes a registered architect between the ages of 25 and 39 for remarkable contributions in leadership, practice, and service.  

Cynthia is an architect and currently serves as the Executive Director for Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (BWAF). She joins the Foundation following ten years as the Managing Director of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter, Center for Architecture. Both an architect and a creative institutional administrator, Cynthia was responsible for the creation of Archtober, the New York City month-long festival of architecture and design. As one of the early pioneers of co-education in the 1970’s, Cynthia graduated from Princeton University receiving both a magna cum laude, and Masters of Architecture. She worked for Philip Johnson in the 80’s and taught at the University of Virginia, New Jersey Institute of Technology and her alma mater.

Dr. Franca Trubiano is associate professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate Group Chair of the doctoral program (2021-22), and a registered architect with l’Ordre des Architectes du Québec. Her research on “Fossil Fuels, the Building Industry, and Human Health” was sponsored by the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy. Amongst her book projects are the co-edited Women [Re]build: Stories, Polemics, and Futures (2019, ORO ar+d), the edited Design and Construction of High-Performance Homes: Building Envelopes, Renewable Energies and Integrated Practice (Routledge Press, 2012), the forthcoming single author Building Theories: Architecture as the Art of Building (Routledge, 2022), and the co-edited Bio/Matter/Techno/Synthetics: Design Futures for the More than Human (Actar, 2022). Franca was president of the Building Technology Educators Society in 2015 (BTES); a founding member of the editorial board of the journal Technology, Architecture and Design (TAD) in 2015-2016; and a member of the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE) (2013-2016).