Color Of Water

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

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Emily Warren

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Frank Ruiz

Audubon California

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Esteban Ortiz

Mayor's Equity Advisory Group

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Priscila B R Alves

University of Maryland

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Paula Buchanan

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

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Ngodoo Atume

UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Naveen Adusumilli

Louisiana State University

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Jorge Roman-Romero

Bassman, Mitchell, Alfano & Leiter Chtd.

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

Environmental Defense Fund

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Jacob Bernal

Washington State University

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Shama Perveen

CERES

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium/University of California Santa Cruz

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Chakena Perry

NRDC

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Jared Romero

Walton Family Foundation

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Esteban Ortiz

Columbia Riverkeeper

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Victor Galvan

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

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Emma Robbins

Planet Woman

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Services

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Afia Zakiya

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

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Roland Jones

CIS

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Michael Mendez

UC Irvine

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Billie Li

Massachusetts Department of Transportation

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Jeremiah Muhammad

Blacks In Green

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

martin griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Vidya Balasubramanyam

Coastal States Organization

Thea Louis

Duke Energy Corporation

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Ruthie Redmond

US Water Alliance

Olga Cano

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

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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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