Color Of Water

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

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Moises Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Roland Jones

CIS

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Paula Buchanan

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

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Victor Galvan

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

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Talia London

The Common Acre

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Benu Amun Ra

S.A.C.R.Ed Eco-Center

Esteban Ortiz

The Gorge Association of Aspirations/La Asociacion de Aspiraciones del Gorge

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Walt Walker

TYLin

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Aria Harris

TYLin

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Afia Zakiya

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

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Olga Cano

HUD

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

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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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