Color Of Water

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

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Chakena Perry

NRDC

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Kaiser Ahad

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Roland Jones

CIS

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Victor Galvan

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

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Talia London

The Common Acre

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Shama Perveen

CERES

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Emma Robbins

Planet Woman

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Services

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

Environmental Defense Fund

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Paula Buchanan

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

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Naveen Adusumilli

Louisiana State University

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Vidya Balasubramanyam

Coastal States Organization

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium/University of California Santa Cruz

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Priscila B R Alves

University of Maryland

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Frank Ruiz

Audubon California

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Olga Cano

HUD

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Pallavi Bharadwaj

Society of Exploration Geophysicists

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Walt Walker

TYLin

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Allen Townsend, Ph.D., MPA

World Wildlife Fund

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Jorge Roman-Romero

Bassman, Mitchell, Alfano & Leiter Chtd.

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Esteban Ortiz

Gorge Aspirations/ Aspiraciones del Gorge

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Afia Zakiya

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

Jeremiah Muhammad

Blacks In Green

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

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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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