2010 Emerging Leadership II Faculty

Richard Harwood
Richard Harwood, president and founder, The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation to the Equal Justice Community at Emerging Leadership 2010. Over the past 20 years, he has become a leading national authority on improving America’s communities and re-engaging citizens on today’s most complex and controversial public issues. Harwood, who has been called "one of the great thinkers in American public life," has dedicated his life to helping people make good on their urge to do good. Rich Harwood seeks to uncover answers to some of the most pressing questions of our time. He has worked with thousands of people in dozens of U.S. cities, spreading a vision for what American society should be, and putting innovative practices to use on the ground to turn that vision into reality. He is the author of The Organization-First Approach: How Programs Crowd Out Community; Make Hope Real; as well as Hope Unraveled (2005). He has shared his innovative thoughts and observations in articles, op-eds and on media outlets such NPR, CNN's Inside Politics, MSNBC, and C-SPAN. He has worked with local and national organizations including United Ways, Public Broadcasters, and local non-profits interested in making a difference in their communities. Rich is a faculty member of the Public Affairs Institute and also has lectured at the prestigious Poynter Institute, a national school of journalism. He did his undergraduate work in Political Economy at Skidmore College. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was a Harry S Truman Scholar. He received his M.A. in Public Affairs from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Charles Wynder, Jr.
Charles Wynder, Jr. is a first year student in the Master of Divinity program of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA. He formerly served as vice-president of program leadership & support at the National Legal Aid & Defender Association. While at NLADA he also directed the Equal Justice Leadership Initiative. Chuck also served as the executive director of Legal Services of Eastern Virginia; as a deputy commonwealth's attorney in the Hampton Commonwealth Attorney's Office and an attorney in the Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps. He formerly served as an adjunct professor in the Political Science/History Department at Hampton University. Chuck continues to provide consultation on leadership development, organizational development and board development for community organizations, churches, and legal aid programs. A Truman Scholar recipient, he is a graduate of Syracuse University and the University of Michigan Law School.

Camille Wood
Camille Wood is the Director of the Racial Justice and Race Equity Project at the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. She previously worked with the Center for Law & Social Policy as Co-Director of its Project for the Future of Equal Justice. In 2002, she helped form the Mississippi Center for Social Justice, a collaborative racial and economic justice law firm that practices community problem-solving approaches. Ms. Wood has also served as Executive Director of the Southern Africa Legal Service & Legal Education Project. Wood currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Poverty and Race Research Action Council. In 2009, she received the Equal Justice Society’s Race Consciousness in the Law Award. A graduate of Harvard/Radcliffe Colleges and the Harvard Law School, she clerked for Sixth Circuit Judge Damon Keith.