Gloria Kloter, AIA, NCARB, CODIA, is an award-winning architect, founder and CEO of Glow Architects, a keynote speaker, and a bestselling author. Gloria has been a practicing architect both in her home country (Dominican Republic) and in the United States since 2004. She is an advocate for immigrant architects, women in architecture, and motherhood.

 

In her book, “The Architecture of Motherhood”, she shares her incredible journey to becoming a worldwide renowned architect and business owner while being a new mom. Through this book, the reader can learn how women in any industry can find a balance between their professional life and motherhood without having to compromise either role. Gloria is also a co-author of the bestselling book “City Shapers”, and “Prospering in the US”.

 

Kloter has dedicated a huge chunk of her career to helping other young architects grow. She is the founder of the Foreign Architects, a private online community where she mentors young and aspiring immigrant architects on how to obtain their architect license in the US.

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Gloria Kloter currently serves as the Architect Licensing Advisor of the State of Florida through AIA Florida. She served as part of the Board of Directors of the AIA Tampa Bay where she served as the founder and chairperson of the WIA committee.

 

Among her awards and recognitions, Gloria is a recipient of the 2025 Young Architect Award by AIA National,  Outstanding Leadership Award 2022 by Realty 2.0 and the AIA Tampa Bay 2020 Kelley Emerging Professional Award, She was also honored with the 2019 Sho-Ping Ching Women’s Leadership Summit Scholarship, a recognition to mid-career women architects who are advancing toward leadership roles and are making a positive impact within their communities. Gloria was also honored in the Sho-Ping Chin: Legacy Of Leaders Exhibition in the WLS 2023 and A’24 in Washington, DC.

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Gloria has been a keynote speaker and panelist at the AIA National, NOMA National, WLS Miami, YA conference, YASS, YAWS, NCARB's ALA Summit, AIA Conference on Architecture, Women Architects Festival, World Creativity and Innovation Conference, AIA Western Mountain Region Vision 2020, among other events.

 

Gloria Kloter and Glow Architects have been featured by major 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 Connection, Women’s Journal,  South Tampa Magazine, Thrive Global, Tech Times, Influencive, and others, regarding her experience in Architecture, and her journey as a foreign architect and mother in the USA.