Rural Changemakers Lecture Series
Rural Changemakers Lecture Series
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The Rural Studies Institute (RSI) in partnership with the Sustainability Council is launching the inaugural Rural Changemakers Lecture Series on April 11, 2023 at 6:30 pm at Peabody Auditorium. We have a very exciting inaugural speaker, Catherine Coleman Flowers, a 2020 MacArthur genius fellow, who is internationally recognized for her work on environmental issues. Below you will find more discussion of her exciting work.
She is a 2020 MacArthur “genius” grant recipient, and an author. She has dedicated her life’s work to advocating for environmental justice, primarily equal access to clean water and functional sanitation for communities across the United States.
She is the Founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice (CREEJ), and has spent her career promoting equal access to clean water, air, sanitation, and soil to reduce health and economic disparities in marginalized, rural communities.
Flowers is a Board Member for the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary, and sits on the Board of Directors for the Climate Reality Project and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Flowers is also Co-Chair of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Commission on Accelerating Climate Action and Practitioner in Residence at Duke University.
She serves as the Vice Chair of the inaugural White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. Flowers was also named Levenick Resident Scholar in Sustainable Leadership at the University of Illinois for the spring 2021 and was awarded an honorary PhD in science from Wesleyan University.
As the author of Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret, Flowers shares her inspiring story of advocacy, from childhood to environmental justice champion. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Guardian, and on PBS.
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