Ed has over forty years in the profession with domestic and international projects at AC Martin, Carrier Johnson + Culture, gkkworks, and he is currently Senior Principal and President of Architects Mosher Drew. He is a current Board Member of ACE Mentor San Diego, with experience over a thirty-five-year span as Guest Lecturer and Adjunct Professor at Cal Poly Pomona, USC, Woodbury University and The NewSchool of Architecture + Design.

Daniel López-Pérez is a Professor of Architecture and a founding faculty member of the Architecture Program at the University of San Diego. He holds a PhD from Princeton University and is a recognized though-leader in design research and construction technology innovation. In professional practice, López-Pérez is the founder of  Polyhaus, a patented model for rapid-housing, that brings together the environmental resilience of mass-timber with the advancements of its digital fabrication and fast assembly, to address the nation’s housing crisis. He is also the author of R. Buckminster Fuller, Pattern Thinking (Lars Muller Publishers, 2020), which was included in the Los Angeles Times critic's list of "Best Art Books of 2021" and is now on its second edition. López-Pérez is the recipient of numerous research grants and awards including from the Spanish Ministry of Culture (ACE), Mexico’s National Council for Culture and Arts (CONACULTA), Princeton University’s Barr Ferree Foundation, the Graham Foundation, and two Faculty Research Mentor Awards from the University of San Diego.

Keith York, a native San Diegan documents the region’s modernist architecture heritage at modernsandiego.com, as well as lectures, publishes, and curates on the topic. As a real estate professional, Keith works with buyers and sellers of distinct architect-designed properties. Following his widely-published restoration of Craig Ellwood’s Bobertz Residence (1953), Keith restored architect Sim Bruce Richards’ personal residence in Point Loma and secured its designation as a historic site. His recent book, The Sensuous Environment: Sim Bruce Richards, Architect, serves as a capstone to decades of research on the San Diego designer. Serving as both author and publisher, Mr. York has recently issued Mosher Drew: The First 75 Years, The Distinct Modernism of San Diego and a trilogy of books on architect Craig Ellwood. Across the last decade, Keith has curated several exhibitions Frank Lloyd Wright’s Legacy in San Diego: The Taliesin Apprentices (2015), Julius Shulman: Modern La Jolla (2019), Julius Shulman: Modern San Diego (2019), and The Sensuous Environment (2023).

Scott Paul is the Director of Sustainability at Taylor Guitars, a truly distinctive role within the musical instrument manufacturing industry. In this capacity, he represents the company in various policy forums at both national and international levels. Scott oversees Taylor Guitars’ global sustainability initiatives, which include the award-winning Ebony Project in Cameroon. This project has successfully planted over 40,000 ebony trees and has also led to the creation of original peer-reviewed scientific research.

Before joining Taylor Guitars, the majority of Scott’s career was spent as a forest policy specialist and activist, including 14 years at Greenpeace. He has worked for the White House Office on Environmental Policy and participated regularly in the UN forest policy dialogue since 1995. He has served on multiple boards of directors, including the Forest Stewardship Council. He currently serves as the Board Chair at Tree San Diego. His work has taken him to the Amazon, the Congo Basin, Southeast Asia, the Canadian boreal, Alaska, and Russia. He is also the first person in over 100 years to be arrested for Sailormongering.