Credentials: Flowers has almost singlehandedly brought the issue of rural sanitation to a national level. Major presidential candidates like Bernie Sanders and Cory Booker have visited her in Lowndes County. She is a Grist Magazine #Grist50 pick. Dubbed the " Erin Brokovitch of Sewage" she is a leading expert on issues concerning the intersection of rural poverty, race, sanitation and climate change. Flowers is one of the leading environmental justice activists in America, a colleague of Bryan Stevenson at the Equal Justice Initiative, her friends and admirers include the likes of Al Gore, Jane Fonda, Tom Steyer, Kat Taylor, Bernie Sanders, and Cory Booker. Timely subject matter/opportunities: Issues of rural poverty are destined to be a major issue at the hustings in 2020, as Democrats will try to get the vote out in rural "red state" areas Media track record: Her op-eds have been featured in the New York Times, she has been filmed by Grist and reporters ranging from The Economist, The Guardian, Vice, Fast Company, The Root, Mother Jones, Daily Kos, Christianity Today to USA Today have covered her work.Southern Exposure Video on her: https://www.southernexposurefilms.

org/films/the-accidental-environmentalist-catherine-flowersNYT op-ed: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/opinion/alabama-poverty-sewers.html Speaking: She is a powerful public speaker, speaking regularly across America at colleges, think tanks, symposiums, foundations, discussing her work in the context of poverty and climate change. She has given testimony to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and presented to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty as well as the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation. In 2018, she also had an opportunity to present in Geneva during the convening of the UN Council on Human Rights. Blurbs/endorsements: Expect blurbs from Jane Fonda, Al Gore and others Affiliations: Equal Justice Initiative, Center for Earth Ethics, Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise Community Development Corporation, Duke University, UN Sustainable Development Agenda.