Color Of Water

Elevating Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and other voices of color to change the narrative around water.

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Roland Jones

CIS

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Esteban Ortiz

The Gorge Association of Aspirations/La Asociacion de Aspiraciones del Gorge

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

martin griffin

madison metropolitan sewerage district

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Talia London

The Common Acre

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Aria Harris

TYLin

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Paula Buchanan

National Center for Domestic Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia Climate School

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Olga Cano

HUD

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Jasmine Walker

IMPACT Community Action

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Shama Perveen

CERES

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Walt Walker

TYLin

Naveen Adusumilli

Louisiana State University

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Afia Zakiya

Independent Africana Studies and EJ scholar-activist, currently Executive Director of Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Victor Galvan

Denver Mayor's Office for Climate Action, Sustainability and Resilience

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

Environmental Defense Fund

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Frank Ruiz

Audubon California

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Alexis Roig

United Nations University

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Emma Robbins

Planet Woman

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Priscila B R Alves

University of Maryland

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Vidya Balasubramanyam

Coastal States Organization

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Benu Amun Ra

S.A.C.R.Ed Eco-Center

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

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About Us

The Color of Water Initiative was created by the Water Hub to build voice and visibility for people of color in the water movement. Our goal is to connect reporters with a more diverse set of experts, and build capacity for these experts to elevate the stories of their communities, which have often been left out of conversations around water. 

 

From water access and drought response in the West to lead pipes and PFAS pollution in the Great Lakes to recurring flooding and water infrastructure failures in the South, Color of Water members have deep expertise and first-hand experience on water challenges and solutions all across the country.


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