Like many of the people she covers, Mary Jo Bowling has had a passion for interior design and architecture from a young age. She grew up to become a design writer and editor and a serial remodeler. Mary Jo has written about beautiful homes around the country for magazines like Sunset, Better Homes & Gardens, San Francisco and California Home + Design; as well as websites such as Houzz and Curbed. For the last several years, she’s focused on homes in Northern California, Colorado, and the Pacific Northwest in her role as homes editor for Luxe Interiors + Design. She lives in the Bay Area with her family and is busy at work restoring a 106-year-old farmhouse and a condo constructed in 1978.

S. Claire Conroy is an award-winning architecture and design writer based in Atlanta, GA. She is editor-in-chief of Residential Design, a new national magazine for residential architects and custom builders, coming in January 2017. She is former editorial director of Residential Architect, Custom Home, and Custom Home Outdoors magazines and founder of the Residential Architect Design Awards. Her passion for houses and design is genetically linked: Her mother, Sarah Booth Conroy, was the longtime home design editor and a columnist for The Washington Post. An architecture journalism award in Sarah Booth Conroy’s honor, The Conroy Prize, is given annually by the American Institute of Architecture’s Washington, D.C., Chapter. Claire serves as a jurist for the prize. She has a degree in English from Vassar College. 

Eve is the Southern California Architectural Manager at Loewen, the leading manufacturer of premium windows and doors for the luxury architectural market in North America and abroad. 
A LEED Accredited Professional, she holds a General Building Contractor license and ran her own design-build firm for 15 years. Prior to that, she worked in advertising research and strategic planning at the Los Angeles Times. She graduated from the Sorbonne University in Paris with a Master's Degree in Economics & International Trade. 

Kevin is the Director of Sales & Marketing at AGS Stainless, Inc. (AGS), a railing manufacturer specializing in 100% offsite fabrication of custom railing systems. Prior to his position with AGS, Kevin founded 4 industry-leading firms including 2 information technology firms; one specializing in the creation of web-based process management tools for Fortune 100 corporations and one that specialized in building predictive modeling applications for federal agencies. He also founded a real estate development firm that spearheaded the restoration and redevelopment of a historic seaport communities’ downtown waterfront, as well as founding a state-chartered community bank. Mr. Harris currently serves as a Member of the Board of Trustees for the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Leading Supplier's Council (LSC), and he also serves as a Trustee for the NAHB Remodelers Council. Additionally, he serves on the Executive Committee for the American Institute of Architects National Custom Residential Architects Network (CRAN). 

Michele Grace Hottel has been practicing Architecture with her own firm, Michele Grace Hottel, Architect since 1994. after working as a consultant with other Architecture and Engineering firms in the Los Angeles and San Diego area. She attended Cal Poly, Pomona and the University of Copenhagen (DIS) for Architecture. Michele is on the AIA CRAN National Advisory Group, the Chair of her local CRAN Chapter. a Commissioner and Subject Matter Expert for the California Architects Board. and a past City of La Mesa Planning Commissioner. One can read her blog and listen to her podcast, "I've never met a woman architect before..."  

Sheri is an award-winning architect and writer. She began contributing to Architectural Record in 1994 and was their Northwest-based contributing editor until 2004. She was the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s architecture critic from 2001 to 2004 and contributed to Dwell, Western Interiors and Design, the Seattle Times, and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, as well as, other design publications. She is the author The Miller/Hull Partnership (Princeton Architectural Press. New York: 2001) and Cutler Anderson Architects (Rockport Publishers, Gloucester, MA: 2004). Her contributions to Modernism at Mid-Century: The Architecture of the United States Air Force Academy won a 1995 Federal Design Achievement Award from the National Endowment for the Arts. She founded Seattle-based Sheri Olson Architecture PLLC in 2004 and The Seattle Times’ Pacific Northwest Magazine, Inhabit, and Seattle Met have featured her firm’s work.