Color Of Water

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

Quentin Stubbs

NOAA

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Afia Zakiya

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

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Charming Evelyn

Sierra Club

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Roland Jones

CIS

Kimbaya Carriere

First Nations Fisheries Council- Water For Fish

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Vinigus Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Breanna González

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Michael Mendez

UC Irvine

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado Water Center

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Thea Louis

Wellesley College

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Emily Raquel Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Maritza Mendoza

GreenLatinos

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Kristi Pullen Fedinick

The George Washington University

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Chakena Perry

NRDC

Jahan Taganova

One Young World Peace Ambassador

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Jorge Roman-Romero

Georgetown University Law Center

Bridget Ray

The Salish Sea Collective

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Damian Shapes Padilla

Georgetown University

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Olga Cano

Environmental Protection Agency

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Shreya Agrawal

The Xylom

Elizabeth Ruiz

Salmon and Steelhead Monitoring Program

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Billie Li

Massachusetts Department of Transportation

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Dr. Angela Chalk

Healthy Community Services

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Anita Shervington

BLAST Fest

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Alex Ortiz

Sierra Club

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos / CO Dept. of Public Health and Env.

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Nahal Ghoghaie

Kearns & West

Ruthie Redmond

Trimtab Sustainable Waters

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

Environmental Defense Fund

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Jacob Bernal

Washington State University

Naveen Adusumilli

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Sarah Traore

Charles River Watershed Association Inc.

Alondra Hernandez

WEAT

Frank Ruiz

Audubon California

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Vidya Balasubramanyam

Coastal States Organization

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Victor Galvan

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

Fernando Ramirez

Hydraloop Inc.

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Nadine Robertson

Manchac Management Services and Consulting Group

Nasim Pica

Weston Solutions, Inc.

Priscila B R Alves

University of Maryland

Carlos Calderon

Wmeac

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Shama Perveen

CERES

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Buffalo Sewer Authority

Marleen Villanueva

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Pita Juarez

Field + Media Corps

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Ngodoo Atume

UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Esteban Ortiz

Columbia Riverkeeper

Jeremiah Muhammad

Blacks In Green

Vicky Espinoza

The Nature Conservancy

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Ciara Horne

University of Virginia

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Rachele Lopez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Jared Romero

Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Emma Robbins

Planet Woman

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Alastair Bitsóí

Inside Climate News

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Tanner Yess

Groundwork Ohio River Valley

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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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