Color Of Water

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

Jared Romero

Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Chakena Perry

NRDC

Alex Ortiz

Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Naveen Adusumilli

Louisiana State University

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Jahan Taganova

One Young World Peace Ambassador

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Elizabeth Ruiz

Salmon and Steelhead Monitoring Program

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Frank Ruiz

Audubon California

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Vidya Balasubramanyam

Coastal States Organization

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Ruthie Redmond

Trimtab Sustainable Waters

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Alondra Hernandez

WEAT

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Paula Buchanan

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

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Anita Shervington

BLAST Fest

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Nasim Pica

Antea Group USA

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

shama perveen

CERES

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Jacob Bernal

Washington State University

Ngodoo Atume

UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Marleen Villanueva

Department of Women and Gender Studies at Texas Christian University

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Billie Li

Massachusetts Department of Transportation

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Jeremiah Muhammad

Blacks In Green

Dr Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Services

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Nahal Ghoghaie

Kearns & West

Thea Louis

Duke Energy Corporation

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Esteban Ortiz

Columbia Riverkeeper

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Kristi Pullen Fedinick

The George Washington University

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Michael Mendez

UC Irvine

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Carlos Calderon

Wmeac

Rachele Lopez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Emma Robbins

Planet Woman

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Jorge Roman-Romero

Georgetown University Law Center

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Olga Cano

Environmental Protection Agency

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

martin griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos / CO Dept. of Public Health and Env.

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium/University of California Santa Cruz

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Nadine Robertson

Manchac Management Services and Consulting Group

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Alastair Bitsóí

Inside Climate News

Priscila B R Alves

University of Maryland

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Tanner Yess

Groundwork Ohio River Valley

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Vicky Espinoza

The Nature Conservancy

Emily Raquel Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Roland Jones

CIS

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Fernando Ramirez

Hydraloop Inc.

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado Water Center

Kimbaya Carriere

First Nations Fisheries Council- Water For Fish

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

Environmental Defense Fund

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Victor Galvan

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

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Afia Zakiya

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

Maritza Mendoza

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.

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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