[Sci-tech-public] Reminder - Morison Lecture and Prize with Catherine Coleman Flowers - “Science and Technology: A Collaboration for Justice” (Monday 13 April)

[Willamina Hadley]

Dear MIT Community,

The Program in Science, Technology, and Society invites you on Monday, April 13th, at 4:00 PM in the Nexus at Hayden Library to attend this year’s Morison Lecture and Prize, “Science and Technology: A Collaboration for Justice” with internationally recognized environmental activist Catherine Coleman Flowers.

Science and Technology: A Collaboration for Justice

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.

About Catherine Coleman Flowers

Catherine Coleman Flowers<https://www.catherinecolemanflowers.com/> 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.

Founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice<https://www.creej.org/> (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 Climate Reality Project<https://www.climaterealityproject.org/>, the Natural Resources Defense Council,<https://www.nrdc.org/> and RMI<https://rmi.org/>, as well as serving as a Practitioner in Residence at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University<https://nicholas.duke.edu/>.

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 White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council<https://www.whitehouse.gov/environmentaljustice/white-house-environmental-justice-advisory-council/>. In 2023, she was recognized<https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2023/6269958/catherine-coleman-flowers/> as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the world and was featured<https://www.forbes.com/50over50/impact> on Forbes’ 50 Over 50 list. In 2025, she was awarded<https://time.com/collections/earth-awards-2025/7270247/catherine-coleman-flowers/> the prestigious TIME Earth Award.

Flowers is the author of the newly-released Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope<https://www.spiegelandgrau.com/holyground> and Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret<https://thenewpress.com/books/waste>. Holy Ground 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. In Waste, 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.

Flowers and her work have been profiled by CBS’s 60 Minutes, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, PBS Newshour and more.

Learn more at www.catherinecolemanflowers.com<https://www.catherinecolemanflowers.com/>.

To Attend In-Person

Please complete this RSVP form<https://forms.gle/QydA3wJYfRaYmi3c8> if you plan to attend in person, as space is limited. To access the lecture virtually, please use this zoom link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/94664936448

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!

Thank you,

Program in Science, Technology, and Society

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