Sara Jensen Carr is an Associate Professor of architecture, urbanism, and landscape at Northeastern University. Her work, teaching, and research examines the connections between urban landscape, human health, and social equity. Her work has been funded by the Mellon Foundation, Graham Foundation, and J.M. Kaplan Fund, among others, as well as published in varied outlets including Preventive Medicine, LA+ Journal, Places Journal, and the Journal of Architectural Education. Her book, The Topography of Wellness: How Health and Disease Shaped the American Urban Landscape, was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2021 and was a recipient of the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize as well as awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Boston Society of Landscape Architects, and the Environmental Design Research Association. At Northeastern, she works extensively with nonprofits, local governments, professional landscape associations, and park conservancies both in and outside the classroom on participatory public realm design and community-driven research. 

Mary Hale is an Associate Teaching Professor in Northeastern University’s School of Architecture, where she teaches design at all levels, from introductory architecture studios to advanced studios and workshops emanating from her design research and creative practice. Her studios have been published through the RAIC CCUSA Academic Summit on Architecture, the ACSA Teachers Conference, the ACSA Annual Meeting and the Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa.  Hale also leads ROYHALE Design, a creative practice through which she channels research into writing, exhibitions, installations, and collaborations with choreographers, video artists and sound artists for immersive performances. Hale has also long-been a proponent of community design, chairing the BSA’s Common Boston Committee from 2010 - 2013 and serving as a program associate within Enterprise Community Partners National Design Initiatives. Hale was awarded the 2015 AIA Associates Award for her leadership and design activism in the public sphere.

Amanda Reeser Lawrence is a Professor and the Associate Director of the School of Architecture at Northeastern University. Lawrence is an architectural historian, journal editor, and licensed architect. Her recent book: The Architecture of Influence: The Myth of Originality in the Twentieth Century (University of Virginia Press, 2023) offers a broad-reaching study that offers a counter proposal to the narratives of genius and originality that predominate within histories of modern architecture, examines architectural works as active rearrangements of disciplinary concepts, precedents, and personas. She also brings deep knowledge of the postmodern period, following her first book: James Stirling: Revisionary Modernist (Yale University Press, 2013).  Lawrence is founding co-editor of the architectural journal Praxis: A Journal of Writing + Building, an award-winning journal of contemporary architecture of the Americas.