Color Of Water

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

Naveen Adusumilli

Louisiana State University

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Pallavi Bharadwaj

Society of Exploration Geophysicists

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Michael Mendez

UC Irvine

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Vidya Balasubramanyam

Coastal States Organization

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Esteban Ortiz

Gorge Aspirations/ Aspiraciones del Gorge

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Priscila B R Alves

University of Maryland

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

emily warren armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Jeremiah Muhammad

Blacks In Green

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Emma Robbins

Planet Woman

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Chakena Perry

NRDC

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Talia London

The Common Acre

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Paula Buchanan

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

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium/University of California Santa Cruz

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Jorge Roman-Romero

Bassman, Mitchell, Alfano & Leiter Chtd.

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

Environmental Defense Fund

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Victor Galvan

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

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Olga Cano

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Frank Ruiz

Audubon California

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Walt Walker

TYLin

Shama Perveen

CERES

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Jacob Bernal

Washington State University

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Services

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Afia Zakiya

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

Roland Jones

CIS

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

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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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