Robert D. Bullard is Ware Distinguished Professor of Sociology and the director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. Considered the “father” of the environmental justice movement, he has written several books, including Dumping in Dixie (2000).Beverly Wright is a sociologist and the director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Dillard University in New Orleans. A Hurricane Katrina survivor, she is the author of In the Wake of the Storm (2006) and Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty (2007).