Civic Engagement and Elections

Tomorrow across Michigan, voters will be head to the polls to cast ballots for candidates that represent their values and priorities.

As a self-proclaimed “social justice warrior”, I am ashamed of how late I arrived to environmentalism.  Growing up in Baltimore, I focused on police brutality, homelessness, and a faulty public education system.  I remember walking down Preston street seeing my community members throwing corner store trash in the road. I saw cigarette butts and soda cans in the alleyways, but I still didn’t make the connection.  How could I not notice the lead poisoning epidemic? Why did I consider sewage overflows and the Chesapeake Bay pollution to be a less important issue?

This is the second in a series of interviews with Clean Water Action Massachusetts Advisory Board Members.