Color Of Water

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

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Michael Mendez

UC Irvine

Shama Perveen

CERES

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Talia London

The Common Acre

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Allen Townsend, Ph.D., MPA

World Wildlife Fund

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Pallavi Bharadwaj

Society of Exploration Geophysicists

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Esteban Ortiz

Gorge Aspirations/ Aspiraciones del Gorge

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Victor Galvan

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

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Jeremiah Muhammad

Blacks In Green

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

Environmental Defense Fund

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Jorge Roman-Romero

Bassman, Mitchell, Alfano & Leiter Chtd.

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Chakena Perry

NRDC

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Olga Cano

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Paula Buchanan

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

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium/University of California Santa Cruz

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Roland Jones

CIS

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Services

Naveen Adusumilli

Louisiana State University

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Kaiser Ahad

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Afia Zakiya

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

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Vidya Balasubramanyam

Coastal States Organization

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Frank Ruiz

Audubon California

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Walt Walker

TYLin

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Priscila B R Alves

University of Maryland

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Emma Robbins

Planet Woman

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

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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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