Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha will give a presentation at UMD on the water crisis in Flint, Mich., followed by a Q&A session on Monday, October 15, 2018. The event begins at 7 p.m. and will be held in Chemistry 200. Admission is free and open to the public.
Dr. Hanna-Attisha is a pediatrician and the author of What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City. Over 200 free copies of the speaker’s book will be available at the event.
According to the author’s website, her book “is the dramatic story of how Dr. Mona used science to prove Flint kids were exposed to lead, and how she courageously went public with her research and faced a brutal backlash. With persistence and single-minded sense of mission, she spoke truth to power. The book explores the horrific reality of how misguided austerity policies and callous bureaucratic indifference placed an entire city at risk. A medical and scientific thriller, the book grapples with our country’s history of environmental injustice while telling the inspiring personal story of Dr. Mona—an immigrant, a doctor, and a scientist—whose family roots in social justice activism helped her turn the Flint crisis around.”
Sponsors for the event include the following:
- The College of Liberal Arts
- The UMD Campus Climate Change Team
- University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus
- Water Resources Science
- Center for Ethics and Public Policy
- The Royal D. Alworth, Jr. Institute for International Studies
- The Program in Geography
- Center for Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights (U of M Twin Cities)
- UMD Philosophy Colloquium Series