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

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Victor Galvan

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

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

shama perveen

Ceres

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Walt Walker

TYLin

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Afia Zakiya

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

Paula Buchanan

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

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Jasmine Walker

IMPACT Community Action

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Esteban Ortiz

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

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Benu Amun Ra

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

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Roland Jones

CIS

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Aria Harris

TYLin

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Olga Cano

HUD

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Talia London

The Common Acre

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Portia Shepherd

www.blackbeltwomenrising.org

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

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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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