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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear MIT Community,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Program in Science, Technology, and Society invites you on
<b>Monday, April 13th, at 4:00 PM in the Nexus at Hayden Library </b>to attend this year’s Morison Lecture and Prize,
<b>“</b><b><span style="color:black">Science and Technology: A Collaboration for Justice”</span></b> with internationally recognized environmental activist Catherine Coleman Flowers.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Science and Technology: A Collaboration for Justice</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This lecture will explore how partnering science and technology with community engagement can mitigate environmental harms. Using storytelling and citing the space program as an example, one will be challenged to expand the definition of
profit to also include community well-being. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>About Catherine Coleman Flowers<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.catherinecolemanflowers.com/">Catherine Coleman Flowers</a> is an internationally recognized environmental activist, MacArthur “genius” grant recipient, and author. She has dedicated her life’s work to advocating for
environmental justice, primarily equal access to clean water and functional sanitation for communities across the United States.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Founder of the <a href="https://www.creej.org/">Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice</a> (CREEJ), Flowers has spent her career promoting equal access to clean water, air, sanitation, and soil to reduce health and economic
disparities in marginalized, rural communities. Flowers sits on the Board of Directors for the <a href="https://www.climaterealityproject.org/">Climate Reality Project</a>, the
<a href="https://www.nrdc.org/">Natural Resources Defense Council,</a> and <a href="https://rmi.org/">
RMI</a>, as well as serving as a Practitioner in Residence at the <a href="https://nicholas.duke.edu/">
Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University</a>. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In 2021, her leadership and fervor in fighting for solutions to these issues led her to one of her most notable appointments yet — Vice Chair of the Biden Administration’s inaugural
<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/environmentaljustice/white-house-environmental-justice-advisory-council/">
White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council</a>. In 2023, she was <a href="https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2023/6269958/catherine-coleman-flowers/">
recognized</a> as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the world and was <a href="https://www.forbes.com/50over50/impact">
featured</a> on <i>Forbes</i>’ 50 Over 50 list. In 2025, she was <a href="https://time.com/collections/earth-awards-2025/7270247/catherine-coleman-flowers/">
awarded</a> the prestigious TIME Earth Award.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Flowers is the author of the newly-released <a href="https://www.spiegelandgrau.com/holyground">
<i>Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope</i></a> and <a href="https://thenewpress.com/books/waste"><i>Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret</i></a>.
<i>Holy Ground </i>is an inspiring collection of unflinching essays, personal and political, that frames the challenges we face as a society and — with grace, generosity, and hope — charts the way toward equity, respect, and a brighter future<i>. </i>In
<i>Waste</i>, Flowers shares her inspiring story of advocacy, from childhood to environmental justice champion, and discusses sanitation and its correlation with systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice that affects people across the United States.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Flowers and her work have been profiled by CBS’s <i>60 Minutes, The New York Times</i>, <i>The Washington Post</i>,<i> The Guardian,</i>
<i>PBS Newshour </i>and more.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Learn more at <a href="https://www.catherinecolemanflowers.com/">
www.catherinecolemanflowers.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>To Attend In-Person<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please complete this <a href="https://forms.gle/QydA3wJYfRaYmi3c8">
RSVP form</a> if you plan to attend in person, as space is limited. To access the lecture virtually, please use this zoom link:
<a href="https://mit.zoom.us/j/94664936448">https://mit.zoom.us/j/94664936448</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This talk is free to the MIT community and open to the public. See the attached flyer for more details, we hope to see you there!<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Program in Science, Technology, and Society <o:p></o:p></p>
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