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Sonia Chao writes and teaches in the area of sustainable architecture and urbanism, resilient design, and historic preservation in the subtropics. Her scholarship explores the intersection between historic preservation, historic places, and resilient design. Across the years, Chao has received numerous grants from public agencies, private foundations, and non-profits, as well as contracts from regional and local governments.
Chao’s current research, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), studies the connections between a city’s built and social layers. The aim is to produce new meta-models, through a human-centered framework, to inform anticipatory guidelines for resilient urban and community design of coastal cities.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew (1992), Chao became the founding director for the University of Miami School of Architecture’s Center for Urban & Community Design and Chao has served as its director since 2006. Under her leadership, the Center has generated investigations, publications, exhibitions, symposia, and partnerships with communities, to promote sustainable and resilient design practices worldwide. Chao has also re-aligned the Center’s core values, encouraging the design of buildings and communities that are environmentally responsible, socially equitable, and economically viable.
Recently, in the wake of severe hurricanes in the Caribbean, Chao, her colleague, engineering professor Landolf Rhode-Barbarigos and a recent alumna, Gaby Feito, continued an effort to assist communities to rebuild in a resilient manner by creating a digitally available ‘user-friendly’ shipping container housing building design kit.
This year, Chao joined UM’s Institute for the Advanced Studies of the Americas, as it’s ‘Climate & the Environment’ Faculty Research Fellow. With Geography colleagues, Chao also helped create the new interdisciplinary Master of Professional Science in Urban Sustainability & Resilience program, which she co-directs, and that will launch in the fall of 2020.
Chao became a Principal Investigator on a team of professors, who in 2018 received a University of Miami U-LINK grant, to analyze and quantify the capacity of coral reefs to protect urban centers from storm surge, utilizing Miami Beach as a test site. In the same year, she also received a grant from Dade Heritage Trust to produce a Resilience + Preservation Toolkit, intended for community-wide dissemination in the City of Miami.
In 2006, Chao chaired the first UM symposium addressing urban sustainability, and since then she has focused her research and capacity-building efforts in the area, leading to endeavors in South Florida, Haiti, Mexico, Dominican Republic, and Cuba. Her related National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) funded publication (2016) is entitled Under the Sun: Traditions & Innovations in Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism in the Sub-Tropics.
Since 2002, Chao has also focused on Havana’s sustainably-minded urban codes, balancing the evolution of urban form with the regulations of historical centers. Her correlated funded endeavors include interdisciplinary investigations, publications, lectures, and international exhibitions, alongside scholars from both sides of the Florida Straits. Most recently, she guest curated the Havana 500 exhibition and chaired an associated symposium at UM.
Before entering the academy, Chao practiced architecture in New York City with Robert A.M. Stern and with Kohn Pederson Fox. In Venice, Italy, she practiced with Alberto Cechetto and with Studio Mar, in collaboration with Architetti Vittorio Gregotti. She received a Master’s of Science in Architecture/Building Design Theory from Columbia University and a Bachelor in Architecture from the University of Miami.

Historian Lloyd Everett practiced law and researched, wrote and lectured on Confederate history. Everett studied law at George Washington University with the goal of writing southern history from a legal standpoint. He graduated in 1903, became a member of the Bars of Washington D.C., Maryland, Florida and North Carolina and was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court.

Everett wrote several articles on Confederate history published in the South Atlantic Quarterly, Southern Historical Association Papers and Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine. He also published a historical novel and co-edited the re-publication of R.G. Horton's A Youth's History of the Civil War, first published in 1866. Everett's other published works include several essays published in pamphlet form, as well as selected drafts of the unfinished work "Dixie's Story." Several chapters of the book, intended to cover the history of the southern states from the founding of Jamestown to the present, appear in 1950s issues of Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine. Everett also contributed to the field of southern history by giving lectures before historical associations in Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia and Florida.

Roberto Gacio is a Cuban actor, professor and theater critic born in Camagüey in 1941. Gacio received a degree in Spanish Language and Literatures from the University of Havana in 1977. He went on to study stage design at the Instituto Superior de Arte de La Habana, graduating in 1981. Since the 1980s, Gacio has been a researcher at Cuba's Centro Nacional de Investigaciones de las Artes Escénicas (CNiAE), where he has focused his investigations on 20th century Cuban theater, theatrical theory and gay themes in Cuban theater.

Rogelio González Corzo was born to Spanish parents in Havana, Cuba on September 16, 1932. González studied Agronomy at the University of Havana and became active in the student group, Agrupacion Catolica Universitaria. He became the leader of the anti-Castro Movimiento de Recuperación Revolucionaria (MRR) during the Cuban Revolution, which led to his capture and arrest by Castro forces in 1961. After a short trial, on April 20, 1961, González was executed by firing squad.

The Hispanic Theater Guild is a hispanic theater company in Miami, Florida founded in 1989 with the involvement of the well-known Cuban American actor-director Marcos Casanova. In 2000, the Hispanic Theater Guild opened their venue, Teatro 8, which hosts frequent premieres of Spanish-language theater as well as stagings of standards in the Hispanic theater repertoire in the heart of Miami's Little Havana neighborhood.

Luis Manrara was a Cuban scholar, political activist, and president of The Truth About Cuba Committee, Inc., a non-profit organization established by Cuban exiles in Miami in 1961 for the purpose of disseminating information about communist Cuba and its role in promoting communism throughout Latin America.

Seymour Samet was born on December 3, 1919 in Newark, New Jersey. In 1943, he married Elaine Rosenberg. They had two daughters: Anita Samet Rechler and Roberta Samet.

Education

B.A. Social Sciences, New Jersey State University, Montclair, NJ

M.Ed. Human Relations, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

Graduate work at Columbia University’s Teachers’ College, the New School for Social Research and Harvard University.

Employment History

1948-1952: Assistant Director, Community Relations Committee, Jewish Community Council of Essex County

1952-1965: Southeast Area Director, American Jewish Committee

1963-1964: Executive Director, Miami Dade County Community Relations Board

1964: White House Task Force for the Community Relations Service, U.S. Department of Justice

1964-1965: Special Assistant to Governor Leroy Collins, Director of the Community Relations Service, US Department of Justice

1965: Chief Intergroup Relations Officer, Community Relations Service, U.S. Department of Justice

1965-1968: Director of Program Evaluation and Development, Community Relations Service, U.S. Department of Justice

1968-1984: Director, National Affairs Department, American Jewish Committee

1984-1986: Chairman of HR Factor Associates, a Human Relations Consulting Company

Arthur Vining "Art" Davis, May 30, 1867–November 17, 1962, was an American industrialist, investor, and philanthropist. He was a trustee of the University of Miami from 1953 to 1962.