Color Of Water

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

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Jasmine Walker

IMPACT Community Action

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Walt Walker

TYLin

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Benu Amun Ra

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

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Talia London

The Common Acre

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Shama Perveen

CERES

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Afia Zakiya

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

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Roland Jones

CIS

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Paula Buchanan

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

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Portia Shepherd

www.blackbeltwomenrising.org

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Victor Galvan

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

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Olga Cano

HUD

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Esteban Ortiz

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

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Aria Harris

TYLin

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

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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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