A former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing, Leilani Farha is Global Director of The Shift, an international advocacy agency that she launched in 2017 with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the international umbrella organization United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG). Farha’s work is animated by the principle that housing is a social good, not a commodity. To that end, she has helped develop global human rights standards on the right to housing, including through her topical reports on homelessness, the financialization of housing, informal settlements and rights-based housing strategies, as well as the first UN Guidelines for the implementation of the right to housing.

Paul Karakusevic is a founding partner at Karakusevic Carson Architects, an award-winning practice at the forefront of public-housing design across the United Kingdom. Focused on working with the public sector, the firm has been appointed as architects and master planners by 15 leading London councils, the Greater London Authority, Transport for London, Portsmouth City Council, Homes England and Olympic Legacy panels. In 2021, it was selected via international competition for public projects in France and Canada. The latter include the masterplan for the final phases of the Regent Park & Alexandra Park Estates for Toronto Community Housing

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.