Catherine Coleman Flowers: When Listening Becomes Activism
Broken Ground
English - May 06, 2021 11:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBNatural Sciences Science Earth Sciences broken ground selc south environment law Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Catherine Coleman Flowers was recently named to the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. A 2020 MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, her environmental health research brought to light the failing wastewater infrastructure in rural parts of the South. She
spoke with Broken Ground about how systemic racism and classism have played a large part in this crisis and how it led her to found the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice.