Color Of Water

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

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Roland Jones

CIS

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Aria Harris

TYLin

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Afia Zakiya

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

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Benu Amun Ra

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

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Talia London

The Common Acre

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Esteban Ortiz

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

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Paula Buchanan

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

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Olga Cano

HUD

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Victor Galvan

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

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Walt Walker

TYLin

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

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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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