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22 MacDirectory Mary Christina Wood, a Philip H. Knight Professor of Law at the University of Oregon, is recognized as an environmental law expert. She teaches property law, natural resources law, public trust law, and federal Indian law. She is also the faculty director of the school's Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program. Wood regularly voices her opinion on global warming issues and has received national and international attention for her independent trust approach to global climate policy. She initiated the approach called Atmospheric Trust Litigation which holds governments worldwide accountable for reducing carbon pollution within their jurisdictions. Her works are used in cases and petitions brought on behalf of children and youth throughout the United States and in other countries. Wood worked as a judicial clerk on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals following her graduation from Stanford Law School in 1987. She then practiced in the environmental/natural resources department of Perkins Coie, a Pacific Northwest law firm. In 1994 she received the University's Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching, and in 2002 she received the Orlando Hollis Faculty Teaching Award. Ta-Nehisi Coates serves as senior editor for The Atlantic and blogs on its website about politics, culture and social issues. Coates published a memoir, The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood, in 2008 which garnered him praises. The memoir spoke about coming of age in West Baltimore and how that experience influenced him. He worked for The Village Voice, Washington City Paper and TIME Magazine. He also contributed to many publications including The New York Times and The Washington Post. He is currently a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visiting scholar at MIT where he teaches writing and journalism. Adolph Reed Jr. is professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also served that position at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, Yale University, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Reed, a member of the executive committee of the American Association of University Professors, is also the editor of Race, Politics and Culture: Critical Essays on the Radicalism of the 1960s, and editor of Without Justice for All: The New Liberalism and our Retreat from Racial Equality. He authored the book The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon: The Crisis of Purpose in Afro-American Politics; W.E.B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism & the Color Line; Stirrings in the Jug: Black American Politics in the Post-Segregation Era; Class Notes, a collection of his popular political writing and is a co-author of Renewing Black Intellectual History: The Ideological and Material Foundations of African American Thought. Reed also writes a column for The Progressive and The Village Voice, and has written frequently for The Nation. DEPARTMENT FACES: WHO IS MAKING AN IMPACT IN THE WORLD TODAY? Mary C. Wood Ta-Nehisi Coates Adolph Reed Jr.