CW Steering Committee

Mary Margaret Saulters received her bachelor’s in anthropology and biology from the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College at the University of Mississippi and her master’s in rural sociology from the University of Missouri. Her research has focused primarily on intersections between health and the environment, using food systems as a lens through which to explore issues such as ecological degradation, social inequity, hunger, and population health. Mary Margaret is currently serving as the program administrator for the Mississippi Center for Obesity Research at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where she collaborates with physicians, researchers, and community members to develop and implement programs related to food security and nutrition.

Mann completed her doctoral studies in behavioral nutrition at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. Building on a food science and nutrition policy background, her research focuses on school nutrition policy, adolescent health, and nutrition education.

Graham Bodie is a scholar, an educator, and a consultant. In each of these roles, he attempts to bring attention to one fundamentally important yet undervalued skill: listening.

Bodie is an internationally recognized expert on listening and has published over 80 monographs, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries. His most recent project, The Sourcebook of Listening Research, is a comprehensive resource that reviews and critiques current and potential approaches to measuring listening. Bodie’s work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and featured in The Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, and on National Public Radio. In addition to several research awards, he was honored twice with Professor of the Year by students in the Department of Communication Studies at Louisiana State University, where he also was recognized with university-wide teaching awards. When he consults, he prefers projects that allow him to make a difference. Currently, Bodie serves as an executive advisor for the Listen First Project and Vice Chairperson for the Global Listening Centre.

Bodie received his bachelor’s and master’s in Communication from Auburn University and his Ph.D. from Purdue University. In addition to LSU, he also served as a visiting scholar in the School of Media and Communication at Korea University in Seoul, South Korea. He is currently on faculty in the School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi.

Professor Hensley is an associate professor of law at the University of Mississippi School of Law. She received a bachelor’s in classics and letters from the University of Oklahoma, pursued graduate work in Near Eastern studies at Yale University, and earned a Juris Doctor from Georgetown Law Center. She was a Public Interest Law Scholar while at Georgetown and after graduation served as an Equal Justice Works Fellow for Bread for the City in Washington, D.C., where she provided legal services to low-income tenants. She later practiced real property and estate planning law in D.C. with the Law Offices of Quinn O’Connell.

Hensley teaches property and real estate and is currently the director of the Low-Income Housing Clinic. Her teaching and scholarly interests include fair housing, land tenure and security, landlord tenant law, affordable housing policy, and substantive and procedural due process rights in adult protective proceedings. Her article “Out in the Cold: The Failure of Tenant Enforcement of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit” appeared in the University of Cincinnati Law Review in 2014. Her recent article, “Due Process is Not Optional: Mississippi Conservatorship Proceedings Fall Short on Basic Due Process Protections for Elderly and Disabled Adults,” appeared in the Mississippi Law Journal in 2017. Professor Hensley is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and in Mississippi.