Guest Speaker Mona Hanna-Attisha

Guest Speaker Mona Hanna-Attisha

When:
February 26, 2019 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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Where:
MSU Library, 4th Floor Green Room
Cost:
Free
Contact:
MSU Citizen Scholars
Guest Speaker Mona Hanna-Attisha @ MSU Library, 4th Floor Green Room

Citizen Scholars is excited to be sponsoring a presentation by Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, who was instrumental in exposing the Flint Water Crisis. Her book, What The Eyes Don’t See, was selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of  ‘100 Notable Books of 2018’. She will be speaking on Tuesday, February 26 from 3-5 pm in the MSU Main Library Green Room (4th floor). Please share widely—all are welcome!

 

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By the crusading pediatrician who brought the fight for justice in Flint to the national spotlight, WHAT THE EYES DON’T SEE is a powerful first-hand account of the Flint water crisis, the signature environmental disaster of our time, and a riveting narrative of personal advocacy. Here 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. (https://monahannaattisha.com/)