Marcel Quimby, FAIA, is principal of Quimby Preservation Studio, a Dallas, Texas consulting firm specializing in preservation architecture and planning. She is committed to the restoration and adaptive use of historic buildings, structures and communities and has led the restoration of both large and small projects ranging in scale from historic log cabins to the Hall of State in Fair Park, a National Historic Landmark. Many of her projects have been recognized with local and state preservation awards. Marcel earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Marcel has had several roles in professional organizations including the National Trust of Historic Preservation, Advisor Emeritus; Texas Society of Architects, past Vice-President; Preservation Dallas, past President; Dallas chapter AIA, past president; Preservation Dallas, past president; and served on Texas Historical Commission’s National Register State Board of Review. Professional recognition includes recipient of the Texas Society of Architects Awards for Excellence in Publication and for Community Service, Dallas AIA’s Presidents Medal and Preservation Dallas’s Dorothy Savage Award for Excellence in Preservation.

Based in New York City, Michael leads a team of architects and designers who are engaged in producing exceptionally refined and conceptually rich design at a broad range of scales, from buildings to interiors to furniture to urbanism; and with a commitment to research and experimentation in materials, technology, and manufacturing. Michael and MKCA’s growing body of work regularly appears in international exhibitions and media including the Venice Biennale, Architectural Digest, Elle Décor, Domus, Dwell, Interior Design, The Daily Mail, The New York Times, and T Magazine, and has been recognized with numerous awards for design and research. In March of 2020 he co-founded Design Advocates, a network of independent architecture and design firms collaborating on pro-bono projects for small businesses, institutions, and organizations that serve disadvantaged communities to help them adapt their spaces and operations to COVID-19 and beyond. Michael studied architecture at the University of California at Berkeley and at Columbia University. He teaches at Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture and has taught previously at UC Berkeley, Cornell, Columbia, and Parsons School of Design. He is the recipient of grants for independent research from the Graham Foundation, Pratt Institute, Columbia University, and the Van Alen Institute, and was the 2004 John Dinkeloo Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. He is a registered architect and a member of the American Institute of Architects.

Gina Ford, FASLA is a landscape architect, co-founder and principal of Agency Landscape + Planning. Underpinning her two decades of practice are a commitment to the design and planning of public places and the perpetuation of the value of landscape architecture via thought leadership, exhibitions, teaching, writing and lecturing. Gina’s work encompasses a wide range of scales and project types, from public parks and plazas to large-scale landscape planning and waterfront projects. She brings to each project a passion for the process of making vibrant landscape spaces—from the conceptual design to the details of implementation—with a particular focus on the life and use of urban, public environments. Her work has received awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Architects, among others. Her service includes roles on the board of directors for the Cultural Landscape Foundation and the City Parks Alliance. Gina is the recipient of the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship and Wellesley College’s Shaw Fellowship. Gina is an avid advocate for diversity and inclusion with emphasis on gender justice and equality. Her work in this realm includes the formation and leadership of WxLA – an advocacy initiative manifest in the first-ever Women’s Landscape Equality (re)Solution and the 2019 WxLA Scholarship. 

Kelsey Keith is currently the editorial director at Herman Miller, a contributor at Elle Decor, and an occasional freelance writer. Previously, in her tenure as editor-in-chief of Curbed, she led Vox Media’s architecture, design, home, and real estate outlet—spanning multiple cities, digital platforms, and mediums. She created Curbed's chart-topping podcast on failed utopias, “Nice Try!”. Prior to Vox Media, she edited at Dwell and Architizer. She has contributed to publications including the New York Times, I.D., Fast Company, and Gawker. In addition to her editorial work, Keith has served on juries for the American Society of Magazine Editors and the James Beard Design Awards and has participated in crits at Columbia GSAPP, the Cooper Union, Parsons School of Design, SVA’s D.Crit program, and the School at the Art Institute of Chicago. Adept at big-picture editorial strategy, team-building, art direction, writing, and public speaking, Keith is interested in making architecture relatable, public spaces equitable, buildings useful, and rooms irresistible.

John T. Reddick is an architectural preservationist, historian, and Harlem resident. Currently, he serves as Director of Community Engagement Projects for the Central Park Conservancy and is a Columbia University Community Scholar, researching a book on Harlem's Black and Jewish Music Culture 1890-1930. He has served as the president of Cityscape Institute, a public planning and implementation initiative and worked with several Harlem-based organizations including Abyssinian Development Corporation and the Apollo Theater. His knowledge of Harlem’s culture and architecture have served to advance several public art and open space projects which include the Ralph Ellison Memorial, Harriet Tubman Square and Frederick Douglass Circle in that community, and New York’s LGBT Memorial and Monument recently unveiled in Hudson River Park. He served as curator and discussion leader for the Smithsonian’s, Cooper-Hewitt Design Center’s ten part Harlem Focus Series, which explored innovative contemporary design found in Harlem or executed by its design professionals. Reddick's love of architecture, African American culture, and history have been conveyed through tours, articles and lectures he’s provided for the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Museum of Modern Art, the New-York Historical Society, The Whitney Museum and other institutions. Reddick received his Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Ohio State University and a Master of Architecture from Yale University.

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.

Meredith Arms Bzdak, an architectural historian, is a Partner in the Princeton, NJ firm Mills + Schnoering Architects, LLC. She has over twenty years of experience in the field of historic preservation, and has produced numerous documents pertaining to historic architecture. As Associate Graduate Faculty at Rutgers University in the Art History Department, she teaches 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. She serves on the Docomomo US Board of Directors as the Vice President of Development.