Color Of Water

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

martin griffin

madison metropolitan sewerage district

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Vidya Balasubramanyam

Coastal States Organization

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Esteban Ortiz

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

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Aria Harris

TYLin

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Olga Cano

HUD

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Alexis Roig

United Nations University

Naveen Adusumilli

Louisiana State University

Victor Galvan

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

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Emma Robbins

Planet Woman

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Jasmine Walker

IMPACT Community Action

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Walt Walker

TYLin

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Afia Zakiya

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

Shama Perveen

CERES

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Roland Jones

CIS

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Frank Ruiz

Audubon California

Benu Amun Ra

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

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Priscila B R Alves

University of Maryland

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Paula Buchanan

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

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

Environmental Defense Fund

Talia London

The Common Acre

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State 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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