Color Of Water

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

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Jasmine Walker

IMPACT Community Action

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Alexis Roig

United Nations University

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Frank Ruiz

Audubon California

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Benu Amun Ra

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

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Aria Harris

TYLin

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Vidya Balasubramanyam

Coastal States Organization

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Afia Zakiya

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

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Roland Jones

CIS

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Paula Buchanan

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

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Priscila B R Alves

University of Maryland

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

Environmental Defense Fund

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Olga Cano

HUD

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Naveen Adusumilli

Louisiana State University

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Talia London

The Common Acre

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Victor Galvan

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

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Emma Robbins

Planet Woman

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Walt Walker

TYLin

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

martin griffin

madison metropolitan sewerage district

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Esteban Ortiz

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

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Shama Perveen

CERES

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

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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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