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