Color Of Water

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

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Moises Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Benu Amun Ra

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

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Afia Zakiya

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

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Aria Harris

TYLin

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Walt Walker

TYLin

Paula Buchanan

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

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Olga Cano

HUD

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Talia London

The Common Acre

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Esteban Ortiz

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

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Roland Jones

CIS

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Victor Galvan

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

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

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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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