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