Regina Hall Instagram – I am honored to introduce you to this week’s #WCW, Catherine Coleman Flowers. @CatherineCFlowers is an internationally recognized advocate for the human right to water and sanitation, a member of the climate task force for presidential candidate @JoeBiden, a Senior Fellow for the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary, and the founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice (CREEJ). And there’s much more! Growing up as an “Alabama country girl”, Catherine has been an #environmentaljustice fighter for as long as she can remember. Catherine’s goal is to find solutions to the water and sanitation crisis in marginalized rural communities across the U.S. by influencing policy, inspiring innovation, catalyzing relevant research, and amplifying the voices of community leaders. Her journey is chronicled in her book entitled Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret, set to be released on Nov. 17, 2020. “Environmental racism and contamination of any community deprives [its] residents of the basic right to live in a clean, healthy and safe environment. This is a right that is inherent to all human beings, yet many are deprived due to their income, race, or ethnicity.”