Catherine Coleman Flowers

Catherine Coleman Flowers is the ​founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice. She is also vice chair of the Biden administration’s White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. An environmental and climate justice activist, Flowers campaigns for equal access to clean water and functional sanitation for marginalized, rural communities across the United States. The author of Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret, she and her work have been profiled by PBS “Newshour,” “60 Minutes,” The New York Times, and The Washington Post, among others. Flowers is a board member of The Climate Reality Project, Natural Resources Defense Council, Center for Constitutional Rights, and American Geophysical Union. Her recognition includes being named to the 2023 Time100 Most Influential People in the World list.