Catherine Coleman Flowers on 'Waste'

Published: Feb. 5, 2021, 4:25 p.m.

Catherine Coleman Flowers talks about the class, racial and geographic prejudice that continue to leave rural Americans without access to clean water and affordable sanitation. She's the founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, rural development manager at the Race and Poverty Initiative of the Equal Justice Initiative, and a 2020 MacArthur Fellow. Her book is called Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret.