LeeAnne Walters

LeeAnne Walters is a Flint resident turned water activist and citizen scientist, who played a pivotal rule in exposing the Flint Water Crisis. She volunteers her time fighting to get the Lead and Copper Rule changed and clean water everywhere. In February 2016, she testified in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the U.S. House of Representatives on the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), State of Michigan and the federal U.S. EPA's role in creating and prolonging the Flint Water Crisis. She is also the recipient of the 2016 PEN/Toni and James C. Goodale Freedom of Expression Courage Award, the 2016 Health Policy Heroes Award and the Champion of Children Award and the 2016 Smithsonian Social Progress Award. Most recently, she won the 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize.