Carol Neff is the Coordinator of Mid-Century Modern Midland (MCMM). After graduating with a BA in multi-disciplinary social science from Michigan State University, she began a 32-year career teaching middle and high school students. She also earned a Masters in Humanities from Central Michigan University. Since her retirement from teaching in 2016, she has coordinated the MCMM project.

Craig McDonald is the Director of the Alden B. Dow Home and Studio and the Alden and Vada Dow Family Foundations. After earning his BA in Psychology and Public relations from Western Michigan University, he returned to his home town to assist the Dow family in transitioning the Home and Studio, a National Historic Landmark, into a public entity that offers a wide range of educational programming, public tours and research opportunities. Under his direction in 2000, the Home and Studio was awarded recognition for their “preservation and care of collections” from Heritage Preservation and the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. Mr. McDonald founded Mid-Century Modern Midland, an organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Midland, Michigan’s Mid-Twentieth Century Modern Architectural heritage. In the spring of 2019, Mid-Century Modern Midland received a Modernism in America Award from Docomomo US.

Bryony Roberts leads the design and research practice Bryony Roberts Studio based in New York. Roberts combines experience in studio art, architecture, and historic preservation to create projects that activate public spaces and historical sites around the world. For over ten years, Roberts has been designing site-specific projects that bring deep engagement with existing buildings and communities and find expression through experimental material craft. The practice has been awarded the Architectural League Prize and New Practices New York from AIA New York as well as support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Graham Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the American Academy in Rome, where Roberts was awarded the Rome Prize for 2015-16 for Historic Preservation and Conservation. Roberts also instigates research and publication projects about designing in response to social and cultural histories. She guest-edited the recent volume Log 48: Expanding Modes of Practice, edited the book Tabula Plena: Forms of Urban Preservation published by Lars Müller Publishers, and co-guest-edited Log 31: New Ancients. Roberts earned her B.A. at Yale University and her M.Arch at the Princeton School of Architecture. She teaches architecture and preservation at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in New York.

Joshua Freedland is Director of Historic Preservation at Bulley & Andrews Masonry Restoration, LLC. During his 20+ year career, his expertise has benefited hundreds of historically significant buildings and sites throughout the country and abroad including the Prudential Plaza, Farnsworth House and the Washington Monument. Joshua is a professional associate of the American Institute of Conservation (AIC) and past chair of the AIC’s Architectural Specialty Group. He is also an associate editor of the Journal of the American Institute of Conservation and is the preservation issues committee chair for Landmarks Illinois. Joshua earned a Master of Arts Degree in Comparative History from Brandeis University and a Master of Science Degree in Historic Preservation from University of Pennsylvania. His penchant for preservation has extended his professional contributions to include teaching, lecturing and publishing extensively in both academic and professional circles.

Ashley Wilson, FAIA, ASID is the Chief Architect for the Historic Sites at the National Trust for Historic Preservation in an endowed position named the Graham Gund Architect. This position provides broad oversight responsibilities related to the conservation and preservation of the architecture and landscapes of the Trust’s historic sites. With thirty years of experience as a Preservation Architect, Ashley specializes in modernizing and stewarding significant historic buildings to make them relevant within the modern environment. Before working at the National Trust, she was a tenured professor at the Clemson University/College of Charleston Graduate Program for Historic Preservation in Charleston, SC and in private architectural practice. She graduated from the architecture schools at the University of Virginia and the University of Notre Dame.

George Thomas Kapelos, OAA FRAIC, is an architect, urban planner and professor in Canada at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University). He studied architecture and urbanism at Princeton University, and holds a Masters of City Planning from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Masters of Architecture from Yale University. 

He is the past president of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada, and the past chair of the Toronto Society of Architects. 

He has published on a wide range of topics in architectural history, design pedagogy, urbanism and contemporary environmental design. His architectural research focuses on post-war modernity. His book and exhibition, Competing Modernisms (Dalhousie Architectural Press, 2015), explored the impact of the 1958 Toronto City Hall and Square Competition on national architectural culture. He is a contributing author to the book, Canadian Modern Architecture 1967 to the Present (Princeton Architectural Press 2019), writing a chapter on institutional architecture in Canada over the past five decades.

He is currently examining the role of photography in the preservation of Newfoundland’s vernacular architectural heritage.