Color Of Water
Elevating Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and other voices of color to change the narrative around water.
Kabir Thatte
The Vessel Collective
Cheyanne Harris
Brown and Caldwell
Alyssa Senturk
California Water Data Consortium
Julian Gonzalez
Earthjustice
Angela Guyadeen
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Monica Driggers
Massachusetts Rivers Alliance
Gia Moreno
Hood Community Council
André Sanchez
California Wilderness Coalition
Jessica Thrasher
Colorado State University
Nureen Faiza Anisha
Oregon State University
Alastair Bitsóí
Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President
Roland Jones
CIS
Silvia R. Gonzalez
UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute
Paula Buchanan
National Center for Domestic Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia Climate School
Rob Larson
Grand Valley State University
Vicky Espinoza
CaliWaterAg
Mahtaab Bagherzadeh
NWF/Clean Water for All
Damian Shapes Padilla
Spirit Rock Consulting
Martin Griffin
Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District
Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš
Azul
Joy Banner
The Descendants Project
Nataly Escobedo Garcia
Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability
Cathie Chavez-Morris
Equidad Group
Jeremy Orr
Earthjustice
Beth Roach
Sierra Club
Frank Ruiz
Audubon California
Ruthie Redmond
UC Berkeley
Rhysea Agrawal
The Xylom
Cheyenne Holliday
Verde
Kimbaya Carriere
Nuxalk First Nation
Julia Fay Bernal
Pueblo Action Alliance
Heather Tanana
University of California, Irvine
Patricia Lindsay-Harvey
Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority
Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George
Ferris Institute
Khalid Osman
Stanford University
Chriscilia Cox
SUMA Consulting LLC
Nicole Nelson
Equity Legal Services, Inc
Pallavi Bharadwaj
Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Ehab Meselhe
Tulane University
Bleu Adams
IndigeHub
Nahal G. Ipakchi
BluePoint Planning
Xochitl Bervera
Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters
Vinicius Taguchi
North Carolina State University
Jo Banner
The Descendants Project
Nadine Robertson
Veolia North America
Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
Marc Oliver Quijano
Jacobs
Sonali Abraham
Pacific Institute
Cate Mingoya-LaFortune
Groundwork USA
Pablo Ortiz
Union of Concerned Scientists
Carlos Moran
Northeast Trees
Esteban Ortiz
Gorge Aspirations/ Aspiraciones del Gorge
Susana De Anda
Community Water Center
Naveen Adusumilli
Louisiana State University
Elizabeth Ruiz
CA State Water Resources Control Board
Brenda Coley
Milwaukee Water Commons
Lenise Marrero
Brown and Caldwell
Val Schull
GreenLatinos
Tanasia Swift
Billion Oyster Project
Maisah Khan
Regenerative Agriculture Foundation
Dira Johanif
Charles River Climate Compact
Nusrat Molla
Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University
Pedro Hernandez
GreenLatinos
Newsha Ajami
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Kedar Dabhadkar
Lam Research
Cate Caldwell
Illinois Environmental Council
Oluwole (OJ) McFoy
Houston Public Works
Tony Bridges
The Maryland General Assembly
Briana Muñoz
Pacific Coast Carbon LLC
Sandi Matsumoto
The Nature Conservancy
Usman Mahmood
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Ngodoo Atume
UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
Alondra Hernandez-Bose
WEAT
Victor Galvan
Denver Mayor's Office for Climate Action, Sustainability and Resilience
Breanna Gonzalez
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Alex Ortiz
Austin Water and Wastewater Commission
Talia London
The Common Acre
emily warren armitano
Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes
GreenLatinos
Cindy Donis
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice
Sapna Mulki
Environmental Policy Innovation Center
Crystal Sanders-Alvarado
Seaworthy
Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Bridget Ray
Washington State Department of Commerce
Angela Mooney D’Arcy
Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples
Thea Louis
MSC Industrial Supply Co.
Arohi Sharma
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
John Echohawk
Native American Rights Fund
Temiloluwa Akinyemi
Monterey Bay Aquarium/University of California Santa Cruz
Alai Reyes-Santos
University of Oregon
Fernando Ramirez
Bridges 2023 International
Ashwin Dhanasekar
Brown and Caldwell
Rene Henery
Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno
Ed Marin
Louisville Water
Michael Mendez
UC Irvine
Cyatharine Alias
Center for Neighborhood Technology
Rhea Drozdenko
Connecticut River Conservancy
Daniela Sherrill
ASU / AZ Water for All
Dezaraye Bagalayos
Allensworth Progressive Association
Shandin Pete
University of British Columbia
Angela M Chalk
Healthy Community Services
Harshini Ratnayaka
Save the Dunes
Adriana Renteria
State Water Board
Joaquin Esquivel
California State Water Resources Control Board
Jessica Dandridge-Smith
The Water Collaborative
Marccus Hendricks
University of Maryland - College Park
Sydney Garcia
The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Tiffany Sevilla
Greenprint Partners
Vidya Balasubramanyam
Coastal States Organization
Oday Salim
University of Michigan Law School
Lucero Sanchez
San Diego Coastkeeper
Sri Vedachalam
Cisolutions
Parsa Saffarinia
University of California, Davis
Jeremiah Muhammad
Blacks In Green
Jorge Roman-Romero
Bassman, Mitchell, Alfano & Leiter Chtd.
Olga Morales Pate
Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated
Jacob Bernal
Washington State University
Jazmin Ricks
University of Pennsylvania
Keiko Wilkins
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Arsum Pathak
National Wildlife Federation
Felice Green
Milwaukee Water Commons
Analise Rivero
California Trout
Charming Evelyn
OceanWell Water
Quentin Stubbs
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Jahan Taganova
City and County of Denver
Carolan Sonderegger
For Love of Water
Nasim Pica
WSP in the U.S.
Emma Robbins
Planet Woman
Ean Tafoya
GreenLatinos
Tanner Yess
Groundwork USA
Andrian Lee
BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC
Pita Juarez
Comms Consultant
Diana Piña Yitbarek
NC Department of Environmental Quality
Nicole Chavas
Greenprint Partners
Sidney Opiyo
University of California, Santa Cruz
Ciara Horne
SBG Digital
Chakena Perry
NRDC
Rachele Lopez
Justice Outside
Veronica Garibay
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Crystal Davis
National Parks Conservation Association
José M. Rodríguez-Flores
Environmental Defense Fund
Chauncey Foster
we.grow.eco
Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz
Greenroots Institute
Charles Cassagnol
Western Ecology, LLC
Gabe Vasquez
US Congress
Priscila B R Alves
University of Maryland
Huda Alkaff
Wisconsin Green Muslims
Nathaniel I Kollie
University of California Santa Cruz
Carlos Calderon
West Michigan Environmental Action Council
Daniel Cordalis
Native American Rights Fund
Sarah Traore
The University of Texas at Austin
Andrea León-Grossmann
Vote Solar
Afia Zakiya
Independent Africana Studies and EJ scholar-activist, currently Executive Director of Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation
Maria Elena Kennedy
Kennedy Communications, Inc
Maritza Mendoza
Empower DC
Danielle Rivera
University of California Berkeley
Jaiden Willeto
Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop
Ayako Tischler
Moonshot Missions
Nikki Tulley
University of Arizona
Ani Jayakaran
Washington State University
Billie Li
Wright-Pierce
Olga Cano
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Sanjiv Sinha
Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.
Shama Perveen
CERES
Bre’Shaun Reddick
Alliance for the Great Lakes
Walt Walker
TYLin
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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 importance of equity in the water world.
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