Timothy M. Rohan, PhD is associate professor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has written many articles for journals and edited volumes about post-World War II architecture and its makers, including Marcel Breuer, Philip Johnson, and especially Paul Rudolph. He is the author of The Architecture of Paul Rudolph (Yale, 2014) and the edited volume, Reassessing Rudolph (Yale 2017). He curated an exhibition at the Yale School of Architecture in 2008 about both famed and little-known projects by Rudolph for New Haven. He is working on a new book about late twentieth-century Manhattan interiors. Tim is committed to working with preservation groups, such as Historic New England and Cape Cod Modern. Tim co-founded UMass Brut, the advocacy group for modernist architecture in the Massachusetts public university system. Docomomo US acknowledged UMass Brut with their 2022 Modernism in America award for excellence.

Karen DuBois-Walton, Ph.D., President, Elm City Communities/Housing Authority of the City of New Haven. Karen DuBois-Walton currently serves as the President of the Elm City Communities/Housing Authority of the City of New Haven offering affordable housing and supportive services to thousands of low-income families. Previously, she served as Chief of Staff and Chief Administrative Officer for Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. in the City of New Haven, CT.  Dr. DuBois-Walton earned her B.A. from Yale University and M.A. and Ph.D. from Boston University.  Prior to her work in local government, she served with the State of CT Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and Yale Child Study Center.  Dr. DuBois-Walton resides in New Haven with her husband and two sons.  She is actively involved on a number of non-profit boards and Chairs the CT State Board of Education and the Melville Charitable Trust dedicating time to creating greater equity for those who are marginalized. She leads efforts within New Haven and the Region to remove barriers to fair housing, reverse housing segregation patterns and to invest in under-resourced communities.

Mandi Isaacs Jackson is the author of Model City Blues: Urban Space and Organized Resistance in New Haven, (Temple University Press , 2008), which was recognized nationally with the 2008 Jane Jacobs Publication Award from the Urban Communication Foundation. For two decades, she has worked in and around New Haven as a non-profit leader, a strategist, researcher, and organizer in the labor movement, and as a teacher, trainer, and community educator and activist. She has been published in peer-reviewed publications in the fields of urban studies, history, and labor and community studies, and does leadership development, research, and strategy work in the nonprofit and social movement sector with clients around the country. Mandi received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University and her BA from Northwestern University.