Chrysanthe B. Broikos is an architectural historian and curator at the National Building Museum.  She has coordinated the presentation of more than 20 exhibitions since joining the curatorial department in 1998 and is responsible for several of the Museum's signature exhibitions including Stay Cool! Air Conditioning America; On the Job: Design and the American Office; and Do It Yourself: Home Improvement in 20th-Century America. In 2005, she organized Cityscapes Revealed: Highlights from the Collection, the first retrospective of the Museum’s permanent collection.

In 1996, Ms. Broikos began her tenure at the National Building Museum in the education department as public programs coordinator, where she created the Museum’s acclaimed Spotlight on Design lecture series.  Ms. Broikos earned a master's degree in architectural history from the University of Virginia and her bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

Anne H. Adams is an Architectural Historian in the Real Estate group of Goulston & Storrs. She has been working professionally in the field of historic preservation since 1976, first at Don't Tear it Down (now known as the DC Preservation League), then the DC Historic Preservation Office, and since 1984, several law firms. Ms. Adams has extensive experience with federal, state, and local historic preservation programs and design review processes, including local designation of landmarks and historic districts, listing of buildings and historic districts in the National Register of Historic Places, and review of projects by the US Commission of Fine Arts and the DC Historic Preservation Review Board.

Ms. Adams' clients include developers, homeowners, institutions, and foreign governments. For various property owners she has recently: written a landmark application for the designation of the Washington Hilton as a DC landmark and helped obtain approval for a residential addition in to that building; obtained National Park Service approval of the rehabilitation of two apartment buildings for low-income tenants; written Programmatic Agreements for numerous military housing projects; and appeared before the DC Zoning Commission as part of the team that got approval for a major project for a local university.

Suman Sorg is the founder and chief designer of Sorg Architects, one of the largest woman-owned architecture firms in the United States. Sorg Architects creates modern designs that are sculptural, and often monumental, yet geared towards the human scale. A longstanding interest in historic preservation complements Suman’s modernist leanings. Her work has been recognized with numerous awards including 23 from the National American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Washington, DC and Potomac Valley Chapters.

Suman Sorg is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architect and sits on the board of the Washington DC Building Industry Association. She is a Peer Reviewer for the General Services Administration (GSA) Design Excellence Program, and serves on the advisory committee for the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. Suman began her studies at the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi, India and completed her Bachelor of Architecture at Howard University in Washington DC (1970). She went on to study Design and Historic Preservation at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York.

Cherilyn Widell has over thirty years of experience in historic preservation. She started her career as an historic sites surveyor in Frederick County, Maryland and founded both the Maryland Association of Historic District Commissions and the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions. In 1990/91 she was chosen to be a Senior Fulbright Scholar to Japan in Urban Conservation where she helped to save Frank Lloyd Wright's Freedom School in Tokyo. When she returned Governor Pete Wilson appointed her State Historic Preservation Officer of California where she was responsible for recovery from the Northridge Earthquake including repairs to the Los Angeles Coliseum and base isolation of both the Los Angeles and San Francisco City Halls. In 1998, she became the Federal Preservation Officer of the Presidio Trust where she developed a plan for the economic and environmental sustainable reuse of the Presidio of San Francisco, a National Historic Landmark District with over 460 historic properties. Upon her return to the East Coast, she has consulted with the Department of Defense in the reduction of their carbon footprint through the reuse of existing buildings. In May, 2010, Cherilyn was name Fort Monroe's Historic Preservation Officer for Fort Monroe, VA, the largest stone fortress and moat in North America with 160 historic buildings which will revert back to the Commonwealth of VA this September to become a public/private community and national park unit.