Color Of Water

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

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Victor Galvan

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

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Benu Amun Ra

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

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Walt Walker

TYLin

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Olga Cano

HUD

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Aria Harris

TYLin

Afia Zakiya

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

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Esteban Ortiz

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

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Naveen Adusumilli

Louisiana State University

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Paula Buchanan

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

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Jasmine Walker

IMPACT Community Action

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Shama Perveen

CERES

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Talia London

The Common Acre

Roland Jones

CIS

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

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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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