Carmen Silva is a community leader and housing activist based in São Paulo. She is a professor at the Center for Women and Territories at Insper and coordinator of the Downtown Homeless Movement (MSTC), which she co-founded in 2000. Over the years, she has served on the Participatory Council of the Sé region, the Municipal and State Housing Councils, and the Council of Public Policies for Women in São Paulo. In 2020, Silva ran for city council with a platform centered on the right to decent housing, securing a seat as deputy in the São Paulo City Council. She is also a leader of We Are Ready and a pre-candidate for State Deputy with the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB).

Ester Carro is an architect, activist, and social urbanist, named one of the 50 most influential architects in Brazil by Casa Vogue (2024), recognized on the Forbes Under 30 list (2023) in the design category and honored by the Brazilian Council of Architecture and Urbanism (2023) for her work democratizing access to architecture and urbanism for vulnerable populations. Since 2017, she has served as president of Fazendinhando, an institute dedicated to territorial, socio-environmental, and cultural transformation in favelas, particularly in the community where she was born and raised. She is a PhD student and professor in the Architecture and Urbanism program at Mackenzie Presbyterian University and will conduct part of her doctoral research (sandwich PhD) at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft).

Bianca Tavolari is a researcher and seminar coordinator at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning - CEBRAP and a principal investigator at the Maria Sibylla Merian Centre - Mecila. She was a professor at Insper from 2018 to 2023, and was part of the team that created the Law undergraduate program at the institution. At Insper, she coordinated the Center for Urban Questions and co-coordinated the Master Plan Observatory. She was a visiting professor at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, between 2018 and 2023. She was a researcher at the Right to the City Lab  (LabCidade) of the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo between 2014 and 2016. During her undergraduate studies in Law at the University of São Paulo, she was a grantee of the Legal Sociology Tutorial Program (PET Sociologia Jurídica). She currently coordinates the section The cities and things in the Quatro Cinco Um magazine.

An architect and urbanist, Renato Cymbalista is a professor at the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo (FAU-USP). He is also the co-founder of the Real Estate Community Fund (FICA). His work bridges teaching, research, and activism, focusing on the right to housing, spatial justice, and democratic land use. With training in architecture, law, and urban policy, he develops tools and frameworks to challenge speculative real estate markets and support community-led models of ownership and care.

An Assistant Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto, Karen Kubey is an ubranist specializing in housing design and social justice. The editor of Housing as Intervention: Architecture towards Social Equity (Architectural Design, 2018), she served as the first executive director of the Institute for Public Architecture and convenes the American Institute of Architects Right-to-Housing Working Group. She is also the founder and director of the Housing Justice Lab at the Daniels Faculty.