Color Of Water

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

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Olga Cano

HUD

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Roland Jones

CIS

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Paula Buchanan

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

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Afia Zakiya

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

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Benu Amun Ra

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

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Talia London

The Common Acre

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Esteban Ortiz

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

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Walt Walker

TYLin

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Victor Galvan

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

Aria Harris

TYLin

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

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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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