Color Of Water

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

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Ngodoo Atume

UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

Jorge Roman-Romero

Bassman, Mitchell, Alfano & Leiter Chtd.

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Vidya Balasubramanyam

Coastal States Organization

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Walt Walker

TYLin

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

emily warren armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Michael Mendez

UC Irvine

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Thea Louis

Duke Energy Corporation

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Victor Galvan

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

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Shama Perveen

CERES

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Emma Robbins

Planet Woman

Olga Cano

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Pallavi Bharadwaj

Society of Exploration Geophysicists

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Frank Ruiz

Audubon California

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Naveen Adusumilli

Louisiana State University

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Esteban Ortiz

Gorge Aspirations/ Aspiraciones del Gorge

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Talia London

The Common Acre

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Chakena Perry

NRDC

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Services

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Jacob Bernal

Washington State University

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Afia Zakiya

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

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Paula Buchanan

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

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium/University of California Santa Cruz

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Roland Jones

CIS

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Priscila B R Alves

University of Maryland

Jeremiah Muhammad

Blacks In Green

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Esteban Ortiz

Gorge Aspirations/ Aspiraciones del Gorge

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

Environmental Defense Fund

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

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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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