Emma Amos, an Atlanta-born New Yorker since 1960, is a painter, printmaker, photographer, writer and teacher. In the 1960s, Amos was the only woman and youngest member of Spiral, a group of black artists that included Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis and Hale Woodruff. Her paintings are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Studio Museum
in Harlem, and The Library of Congress, among others. She is a Professor of
Art at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, and a Governor of The Skowhegan School in Maine.

Henry Arnold began his career in landscape architecture as an associate and partner in the Office of Dan Kiley. Since founding Arnold Associates in 1971, Arnold has been recognized for his work on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial with Maya Lin and for projects such as the Constitution Gardens in Washington, D.C., Metrotech Commons in Brooklyn, and Marina Square in Singapore. In addition to numerous publications, Arnold has been a guest lecturer and critic at Harvard University, Pratt Institute, and University of Pennsylvania, among others. Arnold is also a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Ann Buttenwieser is an urban planner and has spent her professional and civic career fostering recreational use of waterfronts. She has worked in the New York City Departments of City Planning and Parks and Recreation as well as the City's Economic Development Corporation. Her voluntary activities include the founding of the predecessor organization to New Yorkers for Parks. Her publications include Manhattan Water-Bound and a recent introduction to The Lower Manhattan Plan . She is currently a waterfront planning consultant and adjunct professor at Columbia University.

Donald Genaro was born and raised in Hoboken, NJ. After receiving a degree in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute, he joined the world renowned industrial design firm of Henry Dreyfuss Associates. Prior to his retirement in 1995, Genaro served as a partner of the Dreyfuss firm for twenty-five years, the last fifteen as the senior partner. While with the firm, he oversaw product development, human factor, graphic and architectural projects for AT&T, Bell Labs, John Deere, Polaroid, American Airlines, among others. His work for clients has been recognized by numerous awards.

Monica Ponce de Leon is a principal at Office d A, a Boston-based architectural firm whose work has received awards from Progressive Architecture, ID Magazine, the Boston Society of Architects and the Architectural League of New York. She has worked on diverse architecture projects including Rhode Island School of Design Dormitories, Tongxian Art in Beijing, and the award-winning Office d A furniture collection. Her work has been featured in many group and solo exhibitions in cities throughout the United States. Ponce de Leon is now an Associate Professor at her alma mater, the Harvard Graduate School of Design.