Environmental and climate justice

When I worked at the Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute, we co-created a 6+ year community partnership with Ms. Catherine Coleman Flowers and The Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice. Ms. Flowers is an environmental and climate justice activist from Lowndes County, AL fighting for better access to sanitation infrastructure for marginalized rural communities in the U.S. She also works with Bryan Stevenson at the Equal Justice Initiative, is now a MacArthur Fellow and serves on the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Committee.

As you watch the video track your own experience as different issues are raised. What resonates? What doesn’t? Notice when you feel emotions and make note of what topic brought them up. Pay attention to the sensations you experience with each emotion, and the thoughts that arise as questions or statements.

Interview with Ms. Catherine Coleman Flowers about her book Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret.

Learn more about Ms. Flowers work at https://www.catherinecolemanflowers.com.