Color Of Water

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

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado Water Center

Elizabeth Ruiz

Salmon and Steelhead Monitoring Program

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Kimbaya Carriere

First Nations Fisheries Council- Water For Fish

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

Environmental Defense Fund

Priscila B R Alves

University of Maryland

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Jorge Roman-Romero

Georgetown University Law Center

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Jahan Taganova

One Young World Peace Ambassador

Vidya Balasubramanyam

Coastal States Organization

Fernando Ramirez

Hydraloop Inc.

Pita Juarez

Sunrise Project

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Shreya Agrawal

The Xylom

Ngodoo Atume

UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Bridget Ray

The Salish Sea Collective

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Thea Louis

Wellesley College

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Frank Ruiz

Audubon California

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Billie Li

Massachusetts Department of Transportation

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Buffalo Sewer Authority

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Breanna González

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Afia Zakiya

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

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Esteban Ortiz

Columbia Riverkeeper

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Ruthie Redmond

Trimtab Sustainable Waters

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Quentin Stubbs

NOAA

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Emma Robbins

Planet Woman

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Michael Mendez

UC Irvine

Jared Romero

Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Sarah Traore

Charles River Watershed Association Inc.

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Marleen Villanueva

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Alastair Bitsóí

Inside Climate News

Tanner Yess

Groundwork Ohio River Valley

Nahal Ghoghaie

Kearns & West

Alondra Hernandez

WEAT

Roland Jones

CIS

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Anita Shervington

BLAST Fest

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Maritza Mendoza

GreenLatinos

Charming Evelyn

Sierra Club

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Dr. Angela Chalk

Healthy Community Services

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Jeremiah Muhammad

Blacks In Green

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Damian Shapes Padilla

Georgetown University

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Shama Perveen

CERES

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Kristi Pullen Fedinick

The George Washington University

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Vinigus Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Alex Ortiz

Sierra Club

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Nasim Pica

Weston Solutions, Inc.

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Rachele Lopez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Jacob Bernal

Washington State University

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Emily Raquel Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos / CO Dept. of Public Health and Env.

Olga Cano

Environmental Protection Agency

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Carlos Calderon

Wmeac

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Vicky Espinoza

The Nature Conservancy

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Nadine Robertson

Manchac Management Services and Consulting Group

Ciara Horne

University of Virginia

Victor Galvan

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

Naveen Adusumilli

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Chakena Perry

NRDC

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

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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.

Read the joint statement by Color of Water members on the launch of the Color of Water directory and the importance of equity and inclusion in the water world. 

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Learn about the what, why, how, and when of the Color of Water from this interview with our Relationships Manager, José by Waterloop.

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