Color Of Water
Elevating Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and other voices of color to change the narrative around water.
Felice Green
Milwaukee Water Commons
Nicole Chavas
Greenprint Partners
Patricia Lindsay-Harvey
Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority
Jacob Bernal
American Rivers
Benu Amun Ra
S.A.C.R.Ed Eco-Center
Cathie Chavez-Morris
Equidad Group
Rachele Lopez
Justice Outside
John Echohawk
Native American Rights Fund
Dezaraye Bagalayos
Allensworth Progressive Association
Ean Tafoya
GreenLatinos
Ed Marin
Louisville Water
Nadine Robertson
Veolia North America
Daniel Cordalis
Native American Rights Fund
Tiffany Sevilla
Greenprint Partners
Pablo Ortiz
Union of Concerned Scientists
Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz
Greenroots Institute
Beth Roach
Sierra Club
Rob Larson
Grand Valley State University
Maisah Khan
Regenerative Agriculture Foundation
Sydney Garcia
The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Cheyenne Holliday
Verde
Nahal G. Ipakchi
BluePoint Planning
Charming Evelyn
OceanWell Water
Emma Robbins
The Chapter House
Crystal Davis
National Parks Conservation Association
Brenda Coley
Milwaukee Water Commons
Talia London
The Common Acre
Gabe Vasquez
US Congress
Sri Vedachalam
Cisolutions
Tanasia Swift
Billion Oyster Project
Danielle Rivera
University of California Berkeley
Jessica Thrasher
Colorado State University
Mallika Nocco
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Bre’Shaun Reddick
Alliance for the Great Lakes
Breanna Gonzalez
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Andrian Lee
BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC
Chauncey Foster
we.grow.eco
Chakena Sims
NRDC
Dira Johanif
Charles River Climate Compact
Chakena Sims
NRDC
Joy Banner
The Descendants Project
André Sanchez
California Wilderness Coalition
Arsum Pathak
National Wildlife Federation
Xochitl Bervera
Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters
Julia Fay Bernal
Pueblo Action Alliance
Sidney Opiyo
University of California, Santa Cruz
Esteban Ortiz
The Gorge Association of Aspirations/La Asociacion de Aspiraciones del Gorge
Bridget Ray
Washington State Department of Commerce
Afia Zakiya
Independent Africana Studies and EJ scholar-activist, currently Executive Director of Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation
Huda Alkaff
Wisconsin Green Muslims
Jasmine Walker
IMPACT Community Action
Oluwole (OJ) McFoy
Houston Public Works
Mahtaab Bagherzadeh
NWF/Clean Water for All
Emily Warren Armitano
Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Crystal Sanders-Alvarado
Seaworthy
Rene Henery
Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno
Quentin Stubbs
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Julian Gonzalez
Earthjustice
Walt Walker
TYLin
Ciara Horne
SBG Digital
Charles Cassagnol
Western Ecology, LLC
Portia Shepherd
Blackbelt Women Rising
Sarah Traore
The University of Texas at Austin
Kabir Thatte
The Vessel Collective
Rhysea Agrawal
The Xylom
Pallavi Bharadwaj
SEG
Joaquin Esquivel
California State Water Resources Control Board
Michael Méndez
UC Irvine
Nureen Faiza Anisha
Oregon State University
Temiloluwa Akinyemi
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Paula Buchanan
National Center for Domestic Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia Climate School
Olga Morales Pate
Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated
Lucero Sanchez
San Diego Coastkeeper
Pita Juarez
Comms Consultant
Aria Harris
TYLin
Ehab Meselhe
Tulane University
Ani Jayakaran
Washington State University
Shandin Pete
University of British Columbia
Monica Driggers
Massachusetts Rivers Alliance
Sanjiv Sinha
Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.
Damian Shapes Padilla
Spirit Rock Consulting
Jaiden Willeto
Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop
Sapna Mulki
Environmental Policy Innovation Center
Oday Salim
University of Michigan Law School
Briana Muñoz
Pacific Coast Carbon LLC
Roland Jones
CIS
Carolan Sonderegger
For Love of Water
Pedro Hernandez
GreenLatinos
Nikki Tulley
University of Arizona
Angela Mooney D’Arcy
Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples
Nasim Pica
WSP in the U.S.
maritza mendoza
Empower DC
Kimbaya Carriere
Nuxalk First Nation
Nusrat Molla
Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University
Alai Reyes-Santos
University of Oregon
Heather Tanana
University of California, Irvine
Khalid Osman
Stanford University
Daniela Sherrill
ASU / AZ Water for All
Marccus Hendricks
University of Maryland - College Park
Cindy Donis
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice
Analise Rivero
California Trout
Frank Ruiz
The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz
Kedar Dabhadkar
Lam Research
Vicky Espinoza
CaliWaterAg
Jessica Dandridge-Smith
The Water Collaborative
Carlos Moran
Northeast Trees
Nicole Nelson
Equity Legal Services, Inc
Jazmin Ricks
University of Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Ruiz
CA State Water Resources Control Board
Parsa Saffarinia
University of California, Davis
Priscila Alves
University of Maryland
Bleu Adams
IndigeHub
Cheyanne Harris
Brown and Caldwell
Vinicius Taguchi
North Carolina State University
Alondra Hernandez-Bose
WEAT
Tony Bridges
The Maryland General Assembly
Silvia R. Gonzalez
UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute
Cyatharine Alias
Center for Neighborhood Technology
Billie Li
Wright-Pierce
Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes
GreenLatinos
Ashwin Dhanasekar
Brown and Caldwell
Alastair Bitsóí
Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President
Ayako Tischler
Xylem
Arohi Sharma
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Veronica Garibay
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Alyssa Senturk
California Water Data Consortium
José M. Rodríguez-Flores
California State University, Monterey Bay
shama perveen
Ceres
Sonali Abraham
Pacific Institute
Susana De Anda
Community Water Center
Keiko Wilkins
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Carlos Calderon
West Michigan Environmental Action Council
Cate Mingoya-LaFortune
Groundwork USA
Newsha Ajami
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Sandi Matsumoto
The Nature Conservancy
Tanner Yess
Groundwork USA
Chriscilia Cox
SUMA Consulting LLC
Angela Guyadeen
NRDC
Maria Elena Kennedy
Kennedy Communications, Inc
Victor Galvan
Denver Mayor's Office for Climate Action, Sustainability and Resilience
Alex Ortiz
Austin Water and Wastewater Commission
Thea Louis
MSC Industrial Supply Co.
Usman Mahmood
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Angela M Chalk
Healthy Community Resources Services
Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš
Azul
Adriana Renteria
State Water Board
Diana Piña Yitbarek
NC Department of Environmental Quality
Andrea León-Grossmann
Vote Solar
Jeremy Orr
Earthjustice
Fernando Ramirez
Bridges 2023 International
Gia Moreno
Hood Community Council
Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George
Ferris Institute
Nathaniel I Kollie
University of California Santa Cruz
Ngodoo Atume
UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
Allen Townsend
World Wildlife Fund
Martin Griffin
Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District
Lenise Marrero
Brown and Caldwell
Jahan Taganova
City and County of Denver
Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
Ruthie Redmond
UC Berkeley
Marc Oliver Quijano
Jacobs
Cate Caldwell
Illinois Environmental Council
Olga Cano
HUD
Harshini Ratnayaka
Save the Dunes
Val Schull
GreenLatinos
Rhea Drozdenko
Connecticut River Conservancy
Nataly Escobedo Garcia
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Jo Banner
The Descendants Project
Alyssa Senturk
California Water Data Consortium
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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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VOICES: Protecting what we love in the age of AI – Planet Detroit
The director of Michigan Green Muslims offers a faith-based perspective on why Great Lakes communities are pushing back against data centers. [from Planet Detroit]

How more than 240 million gallons of sewage flowed into the Potomac River – NPR
NPR's Erika Ryan reports from the site of one of the nation's largest sewage spills ever — just outside of Washington, D.C. — in January.

Nearly half of L.A. County’s pavement may be unnecessary, new map finds – Los Angeles Times
Researchers have released the first parcel-level analysis to map all paved surfaces across L.A. County. In particular, large parking lots are ripe for change, they