Color Of Water

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

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Benu Amun Ra

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

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Afia Zakiya

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

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Shama Perveen

CERES

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Paula Buchanan

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

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Victor Galvan

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

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Jasmine Walker

IMPACT Community Action

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Olga Cano

HUD

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Talia London

The Common Acre

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Esteban Ortiz

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

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Roland Jones

CIS

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Aria Harris

TYLin

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Walt Walker

TYLin

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

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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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