Color Of Water

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

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado Water Center

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Chakena Perry

NRDC

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Roland Jones

CIS

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Services

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

santos samayoa

Comms Consultant

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Jared Romero

Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Ngodoo Atume

UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Marleen Villanueva

Department of Women and Gender Studies at Texas Christian University

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Maritza Mendoza

GreenLatinos

Damian Shapes Padilla

Georgetown University

Nasim Pica

Weston Solutions, Inc.

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Vidya Balasubramanyam

Coastal States Organization

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Paula Buchanan

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

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

Environmental Defense Fund

Jacob Bernal

Washington State University

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Nadine Robertson

Manchac Management Services and Consulting Group

Maritza Mendoza

GreenLatinos

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Billie Li

Massachusetts Department of Transportation

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Michael Mendez

UC Irvine

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Fernando Ramirez

Hydraloop Inc.

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium/University of California Santa Cruz

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Anita Shervington

BLAST Fest

Victor Galvan

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

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Emily Raquel Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos / CO Dept. of Public Health and Env.

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Alastair Bitsóí

Inside Climate News

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Priscila B R Alves

University of Maryland

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Naveen Adusumilli

Louisiana State University

Vicky Espinoza

The Nature Conservancy

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Jeremiah Muhammad

Blacks In Green

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Elizabeth Ruiz

Salmon and Steelhead Monitoring Program

Afia Zakiya

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

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Ruthie Redmond

Trimtab Sustainable Waters

Alondra Hernandez

WEAT

Kimbaya Carriere

First Nations Fisheries Council- Water For Fish

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Olga Cano

Environmental Protection Agency

Shama Perveen

CERES

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Jorge Roman-Romero

Georgetown University Law Center

Nasim Pica

Antea Group USA

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Jahan Taganova

One Young World Peace Ambassador

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Kristi Pullen Fedinick

The George Washington University

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Frank Ruiz

Audubon California

Esteban Ortiz

Columbia Riverkeeper

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Thea Louis

Duke Energy Corporation

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Nahal Ghoghaie

Kearns & West

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Emma Robbins

Planet Woman

Carlos Calderon

Wmeac

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Tanner Yess

Groundwork Ohio River Valley

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Alex Ortiz

Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter

Rachele Lopez

San Diego Coastkeeper

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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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