Waves of Change is an online interview series highlighting the diverse faces and perspectives shaping the environmental justice movement throughout the Great Lakes region.
This month, we spoke with Monica Lewis-Patrick, activist and president and CEO of We the People of Detroit.
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We the People of Detroit is a grassroots organization that works to empower Detroiters around key issues in the city, including access to clean water.
“I think that we get stagnated when water becomes the geographics of water, urban versus suburban and rural,” Lewis-Patrick said. “We all need water. And so we believe that water should be a uniter. We believe that water can be a uniter.”
Learn more:
- We the People of Detroit Community Research Collective
- We The People of Detroit Water Equity Legal Fellowship
- We The People of Detroit Youth Leaders Program
- Get Water Hotline from We The People of Detroit
- Junction Coalition
- Milwaukee Water Commons
- The Flint Community Water Lab
- The Community Water Center
- The Detroit Peoples’ Platform
- Midwest Environmental Justice Network
- Dig Deep
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Featured image: Monica Lewis-Patrick. (Photo courtesy of We the People of Detroit)
