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 Grant” recipient, Flowers sits on the board of directors of The Climate Reality Project, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Rocky Mountain Institute. She served as the co-vice chair of the inaugural White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. She is a practitioner-in-residence at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. She 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, Flowers was recognized as one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People and one of Forbes’ 50 Over 50.