Next Thursday, acclaimed environmental activist, MacArthur “genius” grant recipient, and author Catherine Coleman Flowers, will headline the virtual 2021 Stone Social Impact Forum, a signature series highlighting civic change agents who advance social change and innovatively address areas of inequality in our society.
Catherine Coleman Flowers, founding director of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, will share her journey in environmental activism and how she has broadened the scope of environmental justice to include issues specific to disenfranchised rural communities by galvanizing policy and research to redress failing infrastructure that perpetuates socioeconomic disparities across the United States.
The discussion will be moderated by Jeff Goodell, New York Times best-selling author and contributing editor at Rolling Stone. Goodell is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow known for his writings on energy and environmental issues.
The Stone Social Impact Forum is a joint initiative of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate and the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, made possible through the generous support of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation.
