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Robert Bullard Receives Horizon Award

‘This is something that’s worth fighting for’

Dr. Robert Bullard posing with seven Harvard Law Students and the Horizon award.

Known as the ‘father of environmental justice,’ Dr. Robert Bullard, a professor of urban planning and environmental policy and director of the Bullard Center for Environmental Justice at Texas Southern University, recently received the Horizon Award from Harvard Law School’s Environmental Law Society.

As part of the Horizon Award ceremony at Harvard Law School, Bullard delivered a talk about his more than 40 years of work in the environmental justice movement. We briefly spoke with Dr. Bullard about how he views the past, present, and future work of environmental justice. Read the interview with Dr. Bullard at Harvard Law Today.