Color Of Water

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

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Naveen Adusumilli

Louisiana State University

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Aria Harris

TYLin

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Talia London

The Common Acre

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Roland Jones

CIS

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Victor Galvan

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

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Olga Cano

HUD

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Paula Buchanan

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

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Benu Amun Ra

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

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Jasmine Walker

IMPACT Community Action

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Shama Perveen

CERES

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Afia Zakiya

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

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Walt Walker

TYLin

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Esteban Ortiz

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

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

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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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