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Catherine Coleman Flowers
Catherine Coleman Flowers is an internationally recognized environmental justice activist and founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice (CREEJ). A MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, Flowers sits on the board of directors of the Climate Reality Project, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and RMI. She has served as the co-vice chair of the inaugural White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council and is a practitioner-in-residence at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. Flowers is the author of Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret and has written for the New York Review of Books and the New York Times, among other publications. In 2023, she was included on the TIME 100 list and the Forbes 50 Over 50 list. Her newest book is Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope.
