Jane Saginaw is a student in the Ph.D. Program in Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas, where her interests include American domestic life during the Second World War. Her memoir, Because the World is Round, is the story of a trip around the world that she took in 1970 with her wheelchair-bound mother who was paralyzed by polio. Before returning to graduate school, Jane was a trial lawyer in Dallas with the law firm of Baron and Budd. She later served in the Clinton Administration as the Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region Six. In 2006, she was awarded Trial Lawyer of the Year by Trial Lawyers for Public Justice in recognition of her work on Venezuela vs. Hughes Aircraft, a case involving groundwater contaminated with trichloroethylene. Jane’s undergraduate degree was awarded in cultural geography from the University of California, Berkeley. Her law degree is from the University of Texas at Austin. Jane is married, has three adult children, and is an avid traveler to foreign countries and internal landscapes.