Color Of Water

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

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Walt Walker

TYLin

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Olga Cano

HUD

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Talia London

The Common Acre

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Shama Perveen

Ceres

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Roland Jones

CIS

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Paula Buchanan

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

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Esteban Ortiz

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

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Afia Zakiya

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

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Aria Harris

TYLin

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Victor Galvan

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

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Benu Amun Ra

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

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

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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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