Catherine Flowers is the founding director of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice based in Huntsville. She also serves as vice chair of the Biden Administration’s White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council.

Forbes named Flowers one of the 50 Over 50 having an impact in 2023.

According to her website, Flowers has worked as a high school teacher in Detroit, Michigan, and Washington, D.C. She has published articles in Anglican Theological Review, Columbia Human Rights Law Review, and American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

She has also written a book “Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret,” which came out in November 2020. Flowers was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship–commonly referred to as the “Genius Grant” –in 2020.

She recently participated in a question-and-answer session with the Lede.