The Scottsboro Boys Museum and UAH Humanities Center partner to bring activist and author Catherine Coleman Flowers to the University for a special guest lecture on January 20, 2026. Coleman has crafted a talk on “ The Power of Transformation.” Join us for a night of education and discussion at Morton Hall 146.

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Catherine Coleman Flowers is the founder and CEO of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice (CREEJ). She holds an honorary Doctor of Environmental Science from Wesleyan University and is a recipient of the MacArthur Genius Award, 2023 Time 100, Forbes 50 Over 50, Forbes Inaugural 50 Global Leaders in Sustainability, and is a 2025 recipient of the Time Earth Awards. In addition, she serves on Broadway Green Alliance Advisory Council, as a board member for The Climate Reality Project and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Flowers is the author of Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope, Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret. She has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and 60 Minutes, and she was on the cover of Time Magazine’s 2025 Earth Awards edition.