Linda Brand is president of Herman Miller Cares, Herman Miller’s corporate giving foundation that funds initiatives worldwide. She is an active member of the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy. Prior to joining Herman Miller, Brand was president and CEO of Brand & Associates, a business consulting firm engaged with private foundations, philanthropists, and community leaders to affect positive social change. Brand was an active member of the West Michigan Strategic Alliance (WMSA), a regional collaboration resulting in significant policy and organizational impact. In 2010, along with several local philanthropists, Linda helped develop and manage the Model Community Initiatives, a local byproduct of WMSA which continues today. This high-profile three-sector leadership forum is designed to engage local stakeholders in strategies to address community issues. Linda has served on several non-profit boards, teaches at the local community college, is a contributing author to the book Personal Quality, and was named one of West Michigan’s Top 50 Women of Influence.

Mary Chandler is the Vice President of Corporate Responsibility at Cummins Inc. and C.E.O. of the Cummins Foundation. Chandler practiced law for 25 years and was a partner in an Indianapolis, Indiana, law firm. She has been significantly involved in state and local public policy, serving as President of the Indianapolis Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, Chairman of the Board of the Indianapolis Local Public Improvement Bond Bank, and Commissioner on the Indiana Natural Resources Commission, among many other roles. She is currently the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee. 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. Through its Architecture Program, the Cummins Foundation has fostered Columbus’ reputation for architectural excellence since 1957.

Holly Davidson is the store manager of the Indianapolis-area IKEA that opened October 11, 2017 in Fishers, IN—the 45th U.S. IKEA and the first in Indiana. A native of southern Indiana, Davidson joined IKEA following successful tenures with international retail companies Blockbuster and Starbucks in regional management positions. Since its 1943 founding in Sweden, IKEA has offered home furnishings of good design and function at low prices so the majority of people can afford them. IKEA incorporates sustainability into day-to-day business and supports initiatives that benefit children and the environment through the IKEA Foundation. The foundation’s mission is to create substantial and lasting change by funding holistic, long-term programs in some of the world’s poorest communities that address children’s fundamental needs. Good Cause campaigns in IKEA stores, like 2017’s Let’s Play for Change, give co-workers and customers an opportunity to engage directly with foundation programs.

Shelley Selim is the associate curator of Design and Decorative Arts at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, where she provides curatorial oversight of the museum’s design and decorative art collections, as well as its two historic homes—the Lilly House and the Miller House and Garden. She recently curated a reinstallation of the IMA’s Design Gallery, the largest permanent collection gallery devoted to modern and contemporary design of any museum in the country. Prior to her arrival at the IMA, she was the Jeanne and Ralph Graham Assistant Curator at Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and a curatorial assistant at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. She has edited and written numerous publications about design, craft, and art, and has also lectured widely on these topics. She earned her MA in the History of Decorative Arts and Design from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum/Parsons, the New School for Design.

Sam Lubell is a writer based in New York. He has written eight books about architecture for Phaidon, Rizzoli, Metropolis Books and Monacelli Press. He is a Contributing Editor at the Architect’s Newspaper and writes for the New York Times, Wallpaper, Dwell, Wired, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, Architectural Record, Architect Magazine, Contract, Architectural Review and other publications. He co-curated the exhibition Never Built New York at the Queens Museum and the shows Never Built Los Angeles and Shelter: Rethinking How We Live in Los Angeles at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum > Los Angeles. With collaborator Greg Goldin, Lubell is currently researching the unbuilt projects in Columbus’ architectural history.

Greg Goldin is a writer and curator based in Los Angeles. For a dozen years he was the architecture critic at Los Angeles Magazine. He has published widely in Architect's Newspaper, the Los Angeles Times, Architectural Record, the L.A. Weekly, Village Voice, and other publications. He co-curated the exhibitions Never Built New York at the Queens Museum and Never Built Los Angeles at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum > Los Angeles. He was a two-time recipient of a Getty Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in Los Angeles grant for his work examining vernacular architecture. With collaborator Sam Lubell, Goldin is currently researching the unbuilt projects in Columbus’ architectural history.

Matthew Kreilich is a design principal at Snow Kreilich Architects in Minneapolis. The studio received AIA’s 2018 Architecture Firm Award, an honor that recognizes a practice that consistently has produced distinguished architecture for at least 10 years. He is the heart of the firm's collaborative working model, with an active participation in both strategic and detail design resolution. Kreilich provides his design leadership on all the firm's projects. He has taught at the University of Minnesota College of Design and Syracuse University and participated in visiting critiques at the GSD and Washington University. Kreilich was recently a juror for the Progressive Architecture Award. He continues to participate on AIA juries throughout the country and give lectures in both academic and professional settings.

Enrique Ramirez is a scholar and historian of modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism. He is a member of the Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative and an advisory editor for Manifest: A Journal of American Architecture and Urbanism. Ramirez has lectured widely and his writings, which cover a variety of topics, have appeared in publications like the Avery Review, the Journal of Architecture (UK), Harvard Design Magazine, and Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal. He contributed an essay to the companion volume for Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Ramirez brings his former experiences as a lawyer and entertainment industry veteran to bear on his research, which considers diverse topics such as legal history and cinematic representations of landscapes. He is currently working on a manuscript that considers how exchanges between architectural and aeronautical cultures in 18th- and 19th-century France constructed new ideas about air and the natural environment.

Jorge Otero-Pailos works at the intersection of art, architecture and preservation. 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 the founder and editor of the journal Future Anterior, co-editor of Experimental Preservation (2016), author of Architecture’s Historical Turn (2010) and a prolific contributor to scholarly journals and books. He has received awards from major art, architecture, and preservation organizations such as the 2012 UNESCO Eminent Professional Award, the American Institute of Architects, the Graham Foundation, and the Canadian Center for Architecture. Otero-Pailos holds a PhD from MIT and was a founding faculty member of the School of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. He is director and professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture in New York.

Ben Wever has worked at the Miller House and Garden for nineteen years, first as a groundskeeper and then as site administrator for Newfields for the last nine years. As site administrator, Wever is responsible for the overall care and administration of the Miller House and Garden. Wever has also helped maintain several Dan Kiley landscapes, including North Christian Church. Previous experience included working the gardens and greenhouse of the Irwin Home as well as being a personal assistant to J. Irwin Miller for four years. An accredited horticulturalist since 2000, Wever has also managed the Columbus branch of Engledow Group, which maintained several Kiley designs for Cummins Inc. and Miller House and Garden. Ben has served on Landmark Columbus’ Design Advocacy Committee, where his knowledge of Columbus history and modern design and architecture helped preserve historical landmarks and architecturally significant buildings as well as public art and landscapes.

Kevin Adkisson is the collections fellow at the Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research. Since assuming that role in the summer of 2016, Adkisson has assisted with preservation, interpretation, and programs across the many buildings and treasures of Cranbrook. He has curated seasonal exhibitions within Saarinen House using collections from Cranbrook Archives and Cranbrook Art Museum. A native of north Georgia, Adkisson holds a BA in Architecture from Yale, where he worked in the Yale University Art Gallery’s American Decorative Arts Furniture Study. He is completing his MA in the University of Delaware’s Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, with a thesis examining the role of postmodernism in shopping mall architecture. Previously, Kevin worked for Robert A.M. Stern Architects in New York as a research and writing associate and at Kent Bloomer Studio in New Haven, where he designed and fabricated architectural ornament.

Flora Chou is a senior associate and cultural resources planner for Page & Turnbull in the Los Angeles office. Based in California, Page & Turnbull is an architecture, planning, and conservation firm imagining change in historic environments through design, research, and technology. Chou leads the architectural history and preservation planning aspects of the firm’s Southern California projects. She holds a master’s degree in Historic Preservation from Columbia University, a bachelor’s degree from Claremont McKenna College, and is a LEED-accredited professional. She speaks regularly at conferences and workshops on preservation planning and practices. Prior to joining Page & Turnbull in 2013, Chou was a preservation advocate for the Los Angeles Conservancy. She currently serves on the national board of Docomomo US, a nonprofit organization that advocates for the buildings and sites of the modern movement.

Susan Saarinen, daughter of architect Eero Saarinen and sculptor Lily Swann Saarinen, is an artist, designer, and artisan comfortable working in many different media. Susan grew up in the Cranbrook Educational Community, an intensely creative environment where her grandfather Eliel Saarinen was director, sculptor Carl Milles and ceramist Maija Grotell were teachers, and Susan’s godfather Charles Eames, furniture designer Florence Knoll, weaver Jack Lenor Larsen, and metal sculptor and furniture designer Harry Bertoia met and developed their crafts. 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. When she has time, she balances her design practice with fine arts. Saarinen has taught at Harvard, the University of Colorado at Denver, the Art Student’s League of Denver and a cultural exchange center in southwest France. She is presently writing her memoirs.

Gustavo Araoz is an American architect whose 40-year career has focused on the management and conservation of the historic built environment. His commitment to serve the professional conservation community and to broaden international cooperation to preserve the world’s cultural heritage earned him three terms as president of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). He was a faculty member of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania for seven years, and has been a visiting lecturer internationally at institutions including Yale, Brandenburg Technical University in Germany, and the International Centers for Heritage Conservation in the Canary Islands and Buenos Aires. He participated in the Nara + 20 process convened by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs and served on advisory panels for the Getty Foundation’s Architectural Conservation grant programs. A native of Cuba, Araoz was awarded the Cuban National Heritage Foundation’s 2011 “Herencia” award. In 2017, he received the Ann Webster Smith Award given by US/ICOMOS.

Adrienne Heflich is an associate with Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA) in Brooklyn, NY. She improves contemporary public spaces by learning from and enhancing a site’s natural and cultural landscapes. For the past 6 years, she has been a part of MVVA’s design and construction administration team for the Gateway Arch Park in St. Louis, MO. As MVVA’s project manager for Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh, NC, she guides the transformation of the site from former state institution to destination public park. The project seeks to promote healthy and diverse local communities through new opportunities for outdoor activities and education, rehabilitate the site’s cultural landscapes, and restore and celebrate the ecology of the region. In addition, Heflich has managed landscape improvements to Vassar and Albright Colleges and Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. Heflich is a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Bowdoin College and has worked with MVVA since 2009.

Theodore H.M. Prudon is a practicing architect and preservationist. He received his education in the United States (MS Arch and PhD from Columbia University) and the Netherlands (MS ArchEng from the University of Delft). He is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and the Association of Preservation Technology International. He has been on the faculty of the Graduate Programs in Historic Preservation at both Columbia University and Pratt Institute for over 30 years. He has lectured and published extensively and is the author of Preservation of Modern Architecture, of which also a Japanese and Chinese language edition has appeared. The book received the Lee Nelson Book Award from the Association for Preservation Technology. Dr. Prudon is the president of Docomomo US and serves on the Advisory Board of Docomomo International based in Lisbon, Portugal. In 2016 he was awarded the architecture prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Michael Bierut is a partner in the New York office of the international design consultancy Pentagram, where his work includes brand identity, book design, packaging, and environmental graphics. 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. Bierut is on the faculty of the Yale School of Management and a senior critic in graphic design at the Yale School of Art. Part design manual, part manifesto, Bierut’s 2015 book How to use graphic design to sell things, explain things, make things look better, make people laugh, make people cry, and (every once in a while) change the world, explores his career and his philosophy of creating with purpose.

Susana Torre is an architect and critic who examines the connection between architectural form and cultural context from a feminist standpoint. Torre’s portfolio is marked by social concerns and questions of purpose and meaning in architectural spaces and in the profession of architecture. The first woman to participate in the Cummins Foundation Architecture Program in Columbus, Torre designed Firehouse 5 to integrate female firefighters, focusing activity to foster mutual trust among firefighters in communal spaces rather than segregated locker rooms, and replacing traditional dormitories with private bedrooms to achieve privacy for both men and women. She is also known for innovative projects such as a proposed Ellis Island master plan (1981) and the renovation of Schermerhorn Hall at Columbia University (1985). 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, inspiring recent efforts to document and inscribe women’s histories in the architectural survey and online sites such as Wikipedia. She teaches and publishes internationally; represented the US in the 1980 Venice Biennale of Architecture; has received numerous scholarly and design awards, and has held leadership positions at Barnard College, Columbia University GSAPP, Cranbrook Academy of Art, and Parsons School of Design.