2021 Common Read: Waste by Catherine Coleman Flowers
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Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret by Publication Date: 2020Waste is the inspiring story of the evolution of an activist, from country girl to student civil rights organizer to environmental justice champion at Bryan Stevenson's Equal Justice Initiative. It shows how sanitation is becoming too big a problem to ignore as climate change brings sewage to more backyards, and not only those of poor minorities.
Author Bio
Catherine Coleman Flowers received a BA (1986) from Cameron University and an MA (2015) from the University of Nebraska. In addition to being a founding director of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, Flowers is also the rural development manager for the Equal Justice Initiative, a senior fellow for the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary, and a member of the board of directors of the Climate Reality Project and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Previously, Flowers has worked as a high school teacher in Detroit, Michigan, and Washington, D.C. She has published articles in Anglican Theological Review, Columbia Human Rights Law Review, and American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, among others, and her book, Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret, was published in fall 2020.
Catherine Coleman Flowers, Environmental Health Advocate | 2020 MacArthur Fellow, MacArthur Foundation
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Catherine Coleman Flowers, Environmental Health Advocate | 2020 MacArthur Fellow, MacArthur Foundation