Color Of Water
Elevating Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and other voices of color to change the narrative around water.
Newsha Ajami
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Chauncey Foster
we.grow.eco
Julian Gonzalez
Earthjustice
Nadine Robertson
Veolia North America
Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Chakena Perry
NRDC
Val Schull
GreenLatinos
Andrea León-Grossmann
Vote Solar
Kaiser Ahad
Lenise Marrero
Brown and Caldwell
Bre’Shaun Reddick
Alliance for the Great Lakes
Rhysea Agrawal
The Xylom
Veronica Garibay
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Jeremy Orr
Earthjustice
Ed Marin
Louisville Water
Charming Evelyn
OceanWell Water
Danielle Rivera
University of California Berkeley
Pita Juarez
Comms Consultant
Cheyenne Holliday
Verde
Nicole Nelson
Equity Legal Services, Inc
Roland Jones
CIS
Quentin Stubbs
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Victor Galvan
Denver Mayor's Office for Climate Action, Sustainability and Resilience
Ayako Tischler
Moonshot Missions
Nicole Chavas
Greenprint Partners
Alyssa Senturk
California Water Data Consortium
Jahan Taganova
City and County of Denver
Mahtaab Bagherzadeh
NWF/Clean Water for All
Ngodoo Atume
UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
Shandin Pete
University of British Columbia
Harshini Ratnayaka
Save the Dunes
Pedro Hernandez
GreenLatinos
Nahal G. Ipakchi
BluePoint Planning
Billie Li
Wright-Pierce
Joaquin Esquivel
California State Water Resources Control Board
Jacob Bernal
American Rivers
Heather Tanana
University of California, Irvine
Nathaniel I Kollie
University of California Santa Cruz
Rob Larson
Grand Valley State University
Julia Fay Bernal
Pueblo Action Alliance
Andrian Lee
BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC
Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz
Greenroots Institute
Dezaraye Bagalayos
Allensworth Progressive Association
Maritza Mendoza
Empower DC
Sarah Traore
The University of Texas at Austin
Cate Mingoya-LaFortune
Groundwork USA
Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš
Azul
Kedar Dabhadkar
Lam Research
Vinicius Taguchi
North Carolina State University
Oday Salim
University of Michigan Law School
Talia London
The Common Acre
Cate Caldwell
Illinois Environmental Council
Xochitl Bervera
Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters
Shama Perveen
CERES
Pablo Ortiz
Union of Concerned Scientists
Ruthie Redmond
UC Berkeley
Sanjiv Sinha
Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.
Kimbaya Carriere
Nuxalk First Nation
Emma Robbins
Planet Woman
Gia Moreno
Hood Community Council
Felice Green
Milwaukee Water Commons
Sonali Abraham
Pacific Institute
Nataly Escobedo Garcia
Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability
Michael Méndez
UC Irvine
Crystal Sanders-Alvarado
Seaworthy
André Sanchez
California Wilderness Coalition
Breanna Gonzalez
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Chriscilia Cox
SUMA Consulting LLC
Cheyanne Harris
Brown and Caldwell
Jazmin Ricks
University of Pennsylvania
Angela M Chalk
Healthy Community Services
José M. Rodríguez-Flores
Environmental Defense Fund
Jo Banner
The Descendants Project
Arohi Sharma
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Huda Alkaff
Wisconsin Green Muslims
Paula Buchanan
National Center for Domestic Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia Climate School
Angela Guyadeen
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Sandi Matsumoto
The Nature Conservancy
Vicky Espinoza
CaliWaterAg
Usman Mahmood
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Silvia R. Gonzalez
UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute
Diana Piña Yitbarek
NC Department of Environmental Quality
Bridget Ray
Washington State Department of Commerce
Nusrat Molla
Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University
Naveen Adusumilli
Louisiana State University
Parsa Saffarinia
University of California, Davis
Olga Morales Pate
Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated
Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
Carlos Moran
Northeast Trees
Damian Shapes Padilla
Spirit Rock Consulting
Carolan Sonderegger
For Love of Water
Sydney Garcia
The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
John Echohawk
Native American Rights Fund
Rene Henery
Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno
Khalid Osman
Stanford University
Vidya Balasubramanyam
Coastal States Organization
Daniel Cordalis
Native American Rights Fund
Maria Elena Kennedy
Kennedy Communications, Inc
Temiloluwa Akinyemi
Monterey Bay Aquarium/University of California Santa Cruz
Sidney Opiyo
University of California, Santa Cruz
Priscila B R Alves
University of Maryland
Beth Roach
Sierra Club
Tanner Yess
Groundwork USA
Sapna Mulki
Environmental Policy Innovation Center
Cyatharine Alias
Center for Neighborhood Technology
Nureen Faiza Anisha
Oregon State University
Oluwole (OJ) McFoy
Houston Public Works
Rhea Drozdenko
Connecticut River Conservancy
Bleu Adams
IndigeHub
Frank Ruiz
Audubon California
Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes
GreenLatinos
Nasim Pica
WSP in the U.S.
Joy Banner
The Descendants Project
Dira Johanif
Charles River Climate Compact
Jessica Dandridge-Smith
The Water Collaborative
Susana De Anda
Community Water Center
Alex Ortiz
Austin Water and Wastewater Commission
Charles Cassagnol
Western Ecology, LLC
Olga Cano
HUD
Gabe Vasquez
US Congress
Emily Warren Armitano
Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Arsum Pathak
National Wildlife Federation
Pallavi Bharadwaj
Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Mallika Nocco
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Ciara Horne
SBG Digital
Marc Oliver Quijano
Jacobs
Thea Louis
MSC Industrial Supply Co.
Cindy Donis
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice
Keiko Wilkins
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George
Ferris Institute
Monica Driggers
Massachusetts Rivers Alliance
Walt Walker
TYLin
Kabir Thatte
The Vessel Collective
Jaiden Willeto
Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop
Tanasia Swift
Billion Oyster Project
Adriana Renteria
State Water Board
Alastair Bitsóí
Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President
Carlos Calderon
West Michigan Environmental Action Council
Nikki Tulley
University of Arizona
Allen Townsend, Ph.D., MPA
World Wildlife Fund
Briana Muñoz
Pacific Coast Carbon LLC
Tiffany Sevilla
Greenprint Partners
Ehab Meselhe
Tulane University
Daniela Sherrill
ASU / AZ Water for All
Tony Bridges
The Maryland General Assembly
Crystal Davis
National Parks Conservation Association
Brenda Coley
Milwaukee Water Commons
Elizabeth Ruiz
CA State Water Resources Control Board
Angela Mooney D’Arcy
Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples
Jessica Thrasher
Colorado State University
Ashwin Dhanasekar
Brown and Caldwell
Analise Rivero
California Trout
Cathie Chavez-Morris
Equidad Group
Patricia Lindsay-Harvey
Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority
Alai Reyes-Santos
University of Oregon
Jorge Roman-Romero
Bassman, Mitchell, Alfano & Leiter Chtd.
Martin Griffin
Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District
Lucero Sanchez
San Diego Coastkeeper
Ean Tafoya
GreenLatinos
Sri Vedachalam
Cisolutions
Esteban Ortiz
Gorge Aspirations/ Aspiraciones del Gorge
Rachele Lopez
Justice Outside
Marccus Hendricks
University of Maryland - College Park
Maisah Khan
Regenerative Agriculture Foundation
Ani Jayakaran
Washington State University
Fernando Ramirez
Bridges 2023 International
Afia Zakiya
Independent Africana Studies and EJ scholar-activist, currently Executive Director of Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation
Jeremiah Muhammad
Blacks In Green
Alondra Hernandez-Bose
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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.
Read the joint statement by Color of Water members on the importance of equity in the water world.
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