The College of Natural Resources at NC State University is honored to announce Dr. Robert D. Bullard as our keynote speaker for our September 22 and 23, 2005 diversity summit.  From waste dumps being located near poor minority communities to how urban sprawl and bad transportation planning affect inner-city communities, Robert Bullard has led the challenge against environmental racism throughout the country.

Dr. Robert D. Bullard is the Ware Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Justice resource Center at Clark Atlanta University.  Prior to joining the faculty at CAU in 1994, he served as a professor of sociology at the University of California, Riverside, as well as visiting professor in the Center for Afro-American Studies at UCLA.  His scholarship has distinguished him as one of the leading experts on environmental justice and race and the environment.  He is one of the planners of the First and Second National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit.  Dr. Bullard served on President Clinton's Transition Team in the Natural Resources and Environment Cluster (Dept. of Energy, Interior, Agriculture and Environmental Protection Agency).  He served on the U.S. EPA National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) where he chaired the Health and Research Subcommittee.

Professor Bullard has testified and served as an expert witness in dozens of civil rights cases over the past decade.  He is the author of eleven books that address environmental justice, environmental racism, urban land use, facility permitting, community reinvestment, housing, transportation, suburban sprawl, and smart growth.  His award winning book, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality (Westview Press, 2000), is a standart text in the environmental justice field.  A few of his other books include Confronting Environmntal Racism: Voices from the Grassroots (South End Press, 1993) and Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of Color (Sierra Club Books, 1996).

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