Catherine Coleman Flowers
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- Internationally Recognized Advocate for the Human Right to Water and Sanitation
- Founder, Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice
- Author of 'Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret'
- One of TIME's "100 Most Influential People"
- Duke University
- St. John the Divine
- Wheaton College
- University of Melbourne
- Transylvania University
- Georgetown University
- Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate
- Huntingdon College
- St. Olaf College
- Washington State University-Pullman
"I want to personally thank you for your time with us today. We continue to collect praise for your remarks and responses to Q&A, and this all catalyzed a very thought-provoking panel discussion following. I think that by the end, there was a convergence, or agreement, on the importance of understanding the role of community as we work toward solutions."
-Washington State University-Pullman"It was an absolute joy to work with Catherine! I know her work and message made such a positive impact on all those in attendance... An honor to hear from such an incredible person!"
-St. Olaf College"The presentation by Catherine Coleman Flowers was highly engaging, even, shall I say, spellbinding!"
-Huntingdon College
Author Talk: ‘Holy Ground’
Based on her remarkably candid and moving book, Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope, CATHERINE COLEMAN FLOWERS provides audiences with reflections from dedicating her life to fighting for the most vulnerable communities—rural, poor, of color—who have been deprived of the basic civil right to a clean, safe, and sustainable environment.
Drawn from a lifetime of organizing, activism, and change-making, this book talk equips audiences with clarity, lights a way forward, and rouses us to action—for ourselves and for each other, for our communities, and, ultimately, for our planet.
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Environmental Justice: The Next Frontier of Social Justice
CATHERINE COLEMAN FLOWERS unearths America’s dirty secret in her talks about environmental justice, touching on one of the least discussed forms of inequality – equal access to water and sanitation. As Catherine shares, these issues are often “out of sight, out of mind” for most of the United States, but they need our attention. Flowers draws audiences in with her in-depth knowledge at the intersection of environmental issues and systemic race, class, and geographic prejudice.
History’s Effect on Today’s Environmental Challenges
We are dealing with a number of environmental challenges today, from sanitation inequality to climate change. CATHERINE COLEMAN FLOWERS explains the timeline of historic challenges that have created the environmental disparities and issues that continue today, and what we can do individually and as country to change these inequities.
Climate Change: Where do we go from here?
A member of the Board of Directors for the Climate Reality Project, CATHERINE COLEMAN FLOWERS takes audiences beyond the broader implications of the climate crisis, discussing concrete examples of how environmental issues are already impacting communities across the country. Flowers leaves listeners with modern-day tangible solutions as well as ways to take action to address today’s current environmental challenges.
Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
CATHERINE COLEMAN FLOWERS shares her inspiring story of advocacy, from childhood to environmental justice champion. She discusses sanitation and its correlation with systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice that affects people across the United States.
