Alana Coons is the Education and Communications Director for Save Our Heritage Organisation (SOHO), California’s oldest historic preservation group. She has worked with non-profits for over 30 years. She has a passion for environmental, economic, and social change through the culture of historic preservation. Coons plans and oversees major events and programming for SOHO and its historic sites.

Ann Jarmusch is an award-winning architecture critic and arts writer who covered architecture, urban design, interior design, and art for the San Diego Union-Tribune for 17 years. Her commentaries and features have been published locally in Riviera and San Diego magazines, and in national magazines, such as Architecture, Architectural Record, Planning, ARTnews, Aperture, American Craft and Town & Country. She recently relocated to Sedona, Arizona, where she is a freelance writer and editor specializing in art, architecture and historic preservation.