WIT 2025: Catherine Coleman Flowers and Peter Hotez in Conversation with Jeremy S. Faust

Listening is a form of activism: A conversation with Catherine Coleman Flowers and Peter Hotez, moderated by Jeremy S. Faust.

Friday, September 26, 2025 at the WIT Literary Festival

About the event, from the festival programming:
What is the connection between the health of our communities and the health of our democracy? Join environmental justice activist Catherine Coleman Flowers and public health advocate Peter Hotez for an illuminating conversation on their tireless work to overcome deep-rooted social iniquities and an increasingly dangerous anti-science movement that compromises the well-being of the most vulnerable Americans. “No one in science wants to talk about politics. Our training says we should be politically neutral,” Hotez has written. “But how do we as scientists uncouple anti-science attacks from politics? How do we uncouple anti-science because it doesn’t belong, and it’s going to kill people?”