Catherine Coleman Flowers

Catherine Coleman Flowers
Flowers in 2020
Born1958 (age 65–66)
Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
Alma materCameron University
University of Nebraska at Kearney
Employer(s)The Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice
Known forEnvironmental activism
AwardsMacArthur Fellow (2020)

Catherine Coleman Flowers (born 1958) is an American environmental health researcher, writer and the founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice. She was selected as a MacArthur Fellow in 2020. Her first book, Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret, explores the environmental justice movement in rural America. She is known for bringing attention to failing sewage treatment infrastructure in rural U.S communities, particularly in Lowndes County, Alabama.[1]

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