I’m honoured to speak to the accomplished environmental and climate justice activist, accomplished speaker, and author of “Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret” Catherine Coleman Flowers in today’s episode. She is bringing attention to the largely invisible problem of inadequate waste and water sanitation infrastructure in rural communities in the United States, or America’s dirty secret. She has dedicated her career to fighting for environmental justice. She is here to explain how much of her work focuses on improving sanitation and water infrastructure in Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and poor rural communities in America.

Catherine is, without a doubt, a powerful storyteller and communicator, and she has advocated for environmental justice in moving testimony before the United Nations and the U.S. Congress, framing access to clean water and sanitation as a civil and human right. Be sure to watch until the end to find out what Catherine plans for the near future.

Learn more about her important work here.

00:00 – 02:22 Introducing Catherine
02:22 – 05:15 Climate Justice
05:15 – 07:55 Finding Her Purpose & Main Motivation
07:55 – 10:43 Top Qualities
10:43 – 12:22 Top Tips
12:22 – 13:32 The Future