Catherine Coleman Flowers is the founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, and since 2008 has been the rural development manager at the Race and Poverty Initiative of the Equal Justice Initiative. She is the author of Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret, winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize for a first book in the public interest. In 2020, Flowers was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She lives in Montgomery, Alabama.
