Robert D. Bullard

Robert Doyle Bullard is an American academic who is the former dean of the Barbara Jordan – Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs and is currently a distinguished professor at Texas Southern University. Previously Ware Professor of Sociology and director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, Bullard is known as the "father of environmental justice". He has been a leading campaigner against environmental racism, as well as the foremost scholar of the problem, and of the Environmental Justice Movement which sprung up in the United States in the 1980s.