Color Of Water

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

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Naveen Adusumilli

Louisiana State University

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Roland Jones

CIS

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Shama Perveen

CERES

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Priscila B R Alves

University of Maryland

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Benu Amun Ra

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

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Afia Zakiya

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

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Talia London

The Common Acre

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

martin griffin

madison metropolitan sewerage district

Frank Ruiz

Audubon California

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Esteban Ortiz

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

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Paula Buchanan

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

Olga Cano

HUD

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Jasmine Walker

IMPACT Community Action

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

Environmental Defense Fund

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Chakena Perry

NRDC

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Victor Galvan

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

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Walt Walker

TYLin

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Alexis Roig

United Nations University

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Emma Robbins

Planet Woman

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

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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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