Color Of Water

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

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Kristi Pullen Fedinick

The George Washington University

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Buffalo Sewer Authority

Naveen Adusumilli

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Rachele Lopez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Thea Louis

Wellesley College

Afia Zakiya

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

Jahan Taganova

One Young World Peace Ambassador

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Charming Evelyn

Sierra Club

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

Environmental Defense Fund

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Victor Galvan

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

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Shreya Agrawal

The Xylom

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Kimbaya Carriere

First Nations Fisheries Council- Water For Fish

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Sarah Traore

Charles River Watershed Association Inc.

Nahal Ghoghaie

Kearns & West

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Vicky Espinoza

The Nature Conservancy

Esteban Ortiz

Columbia Riverkeeper

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Vidya Balasubramanyam

Coastal States Organization

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Shama Perveen

CERES

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado Water Center

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Frank Ruiz

Audubon California

Carlos Calderon

Wmeac

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Emma Robbins

Planet Woman

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Ngodoo Atume

UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

Dr. Angela Chalk

Healthy Community Services

Priscila B R Alves

University of Maryland

Bridget Ray

The Salish Sea Collective

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Pita Juarez

Field + Media Corps

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Jeremiah Muhammad

Blacks In Green

Fernando Ramirez

Hydraloop Inc.

Roland Jones

CIS

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Vinigus Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Damian Shapes Padilla

Georgetown University

Ruthie Redmond

Trimtab Sustainable Waters

Alastair Bitsóí

Inside Climate News

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos / CO Dept. of Public Health and Env.

Jacob Bernal

Washington State University

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Jared Romero

Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc

Anita Shervington

BLAST Fest

Quentin Stubbs

NOAA

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Alex Ortiz

Sierra Club

Breanna González

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Emily Raquel Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Elizabeth Ruiz

Salmon and Steelhead Monitoring Program

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Jorge Roman-Romero

Georgetown University Law Center

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Tanner Yess

Groundwork Ohio River Valley

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Chakena Perry

NRDC

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Nasim Pica

Weston Solutions, Inc.

Maritza Mendoza

GreenLatinos

Marleen Villanueva

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Olga Cano

Environmental Protection Agency

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Alondra Hernandez

WEAT

Ciara Horne

University of Virginia

Nadine Robertson

Manchac Management Services and Consulting Group

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Billie Li

Massachusetts Department of Transportation

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Michael Mendez

UC Irvine

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Analise Rivero

California Trout

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.

Read the joint statement by Color of Water members on the launch of the Color of Water directory and the importance of equity and inclusion in the water world. 

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Learn about the what, why, how, and when of the Color of Water from this interview with our Relationships Manager, José by Waterloop.

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