Hussein M. Adam ( Ph.D., Harvard University) is associate professor
of political science at the Holy Cross College Department of Political
Science and the Center for International Studies. His interests include
development, state-civil society relationships, and the role and impact
of voluntary development organizations. He taught at the Somali Na-
tional University from 1974 to 1986, and as a UN consultant in 1985‐
86 he established the Intergovernmental Authority for Drought and
Development in six African nations. He serves on the advisory Board
of the Brown University Alan Feinstein World Hunger Program and
has just been appointed to a three-year term as a member of the Coun-
cil of African Advisors of the World Bank.

Elizabeth Bell is an environment protection specialist for American
Indian affairs at the EPA. She began her work in the environmental
justice movement over four years ago working with a grassroots orga-
nization on the south side of Chicago to block the siting of an incin-
eration plant in this predominantly African American and low-income
community. Over the past five years she has worked with a number
of environmental organizations including Ohio Citizen Action and the
Public Interest Research Group (PIRG). Most recently, she chaired the
American Indian Outreach subcommittee for the interagency effort on
the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Lia-
bility Act (CERCLA) reauthorization.

Robert D. Bullard is Ware Professor at the Department of Sociology
at Clarke Atlanta University. His groundbreaking research has made
him one of the leading experts on people-of-color grassroots groups
and the environmental justice movement. His publications include
Dumping in Dixie (Westview Press, 1994), Confronting Environmental
Racism: Voices from the Grassroots (South End Press, 1993), and nu-
merous journal articles and chapters in books.

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