Gloria Kloter, AIA, NCARB, CODIA, is an award-winning architect, founder and CEO of Glow Architects, keynote speaker, and bestselling author. She is an advocate for immigrants, women in architecture, and motherhood. Kloter is the author of The Architecture of Motherhood, and Co-Author of City Shapers and Prospering in the US. She is the founder of Foreign Architects, serves as a 2025-2027 At-Large Representative to the Strategic Council for AIA National Architect. She's also the Architect Licensing Advisor through AIA Florida and served AIA Tampa Bay as part of their Board of Directors for several years where she also founded and chaired the WIA Committee Tampa Bay. Gloria is currently the Director of Programs for the Immigrant Architects Coalition. Among her awards, Gloria is a recipient of the Norma Sklerak Humanitarian Award by AIA California, the Outstanding Leadership Award, and the AIA Tampa Bay Kelley Emerging Professional Award. She was also honored with the Sho-Ping Ching WLS Scholarship. Gloria Kloter has been featured by major architectural and publications like Architizer, Young Architect Podcast, Context & Clarity Podcast, Practice Disrupted Podcast, The IAC Podcast, From The Honeycomb Podcast, Mentor Dino, EntreArchitect, Arquitexto, NCARB, YAF, South Tampa Magazine, Thrive Global, Tech Times, and Influencive.