Advocates:

Marion Weiss
Marion Weiss from New York City and is the Co-founder of WEISS/MANFREDI and the Graham Chair Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. She won the Design Leader Award as well as many other awards with her firm. Time Magazine calls her projects top 10 in the world and I.D. magazine presents her with the highest Evironmental Design Award. She also won the nature catagory of Barcelona's World Architecture Festival and was the first project in North America to win Harvard University's Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design! She has a master's degree from Yale and a bachelor of science degree from University of Virginia. She also teaches courses at Harvard, Yale, and Cornell.

Elizabeth Whittaker
Elizabeth is the Founder and Principal of Merge Architects and Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is working to combine new types of production that use digital and hand-made fabrication or manufacturing. Elizabeth created "Growbox" which combined landscape and home as one. "You feel like you're in a tree house." Being one of Boston's top architects, Elizabeth received the New Generation Leader Award. She also received the AIA Young Architects Award and established one of the top 10 emerging firms in the world. Elizabeth has taught in several architecture programs including MIT, Northeaster, and Boston Architectural College. She now has a faculty position at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, which she attended.

Billie Faircloth
Billie is a recipient of the Innovator Award. She is creating houses that are a solution for the rapidly expanding middle class of India. The housing is affordable and quick to build. Billie is a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design, and sometimes The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. She has written plenty of articles that have been published in numerous magazines or papers, and she wrote a book called, Plastics Now: On Architecture's Relationship to a Continuously Emerging Material.

Deanna Van Buren
Deanna is the Co-Founder and Design Director of Designing Justice and Designing Spaces. She won the Activist Award for using her architectural skills for social change. Deanna displays her leadership on justice architecture through published materials such as the "Restorative Justice City Map" and "Guidelines for Creating Restorative Spaces in Schools". Deanna has a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Virginia, a Masters Degree from Colombia, and collaborates with Harvard's Graduate School of Design.

Zaha Hadid
Zaha changed geometry in architecture, giving it personality. Her unique buildings left people wondering about the structure to even how one enters the building. Her buildings were admired mostly by a youthful generation of architects, not to say people who have been in the industry do not enjoy it. Zaha never allowed herself to hold back due to gender and background. In 2004, she was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Prize or the equivilant to the Noble Peace Prize in Architecture. Unfortunately, Zaha died in 2008 at age 65 due to a heart-attack after being dignosed with bronchitis. She still stands as a symbol for womens rights in and out of the field of architecture.