Color Of Water

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

Vinigus Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Naveen Adusumilli

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Elizabeth Ruiz

Salmon and Steelhead Monitoring Program

Esteban Ortiz

Columbia Riverkeeper

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Michael Mendez

UC Irvine

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Shama Perveen

CERES

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos / CO Dept. of Public Health and Env.

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Jahan Taganova

One Young World Peace Ambassador

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Pita Juarez

Sunrise Project

Quentin Stubbs

NOAA

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Bridget Ray

The Salish Sea Collective

Dr. Angela Chalk

Healthy Community Services

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Breanna González

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Jeremiah Muhammad

Blacks In Green

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado Water Center

Olga Cano

Environmental Protection Agency

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Victor Galvan

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

Damian Shapes Padilla

Georgetown University

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Afia Zakiya

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

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Carlos Calderon

Wmeac

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Shreya Agrawal

The Xylom

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Ciara Horne

University of Virginia

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Rachele Lopez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Nahal Ghoghaie

Kearns & West

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Alastair Bitsóí

Inside Climate News

Alex Ortiz

Sierra Club

Roland Jones

CIS

Billie Li

Massachusetts Department of Transportation

Nasim Pica

Weston Solutions, Inc.

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Alondra Hernandez

WEAT

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Chakena Perry

NRDC

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

Environmental Defense Fund

Sarah Traore

Charles River Watershed Association Inc.

Kristi Pullen Fedinick

The George Washington University

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Nadine Robertson

Manchac Management Services and Consulting Group

Thea Louis

Wellesley College

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Jorge Roman-Romero

Georgetown University Law Center

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Tanner Yess

Groundwork Ohio River Valley

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Fernando Ramirez

Hydraloop Inc.

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Marleen Villanueva

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Vicky Espinoza

The Nature Conservancy

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Maritza Mendoza

GreenLatinos

Kimbaya Carriere

First Nations Fisheries Council- Water For Fish

Anita Shervington

BLAST Fest

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Jared Romero

Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc

Priscila B R Alves

University of Maryland

Ngodoo Atume

UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Emily Raquel Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Ruthie Redmond

Trimtab Sustainable Waters

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Buffalo Sewer Authority

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Emma Robbins

Planet Woman

Frank Ruiz

Audubon California

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Jacob Bernal

Washington State University

Charming Evelyn

Sierra Club

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Vidya Balasubramanyam

Coastal States Organization

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

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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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If you identify as a person of color with expertise in water (including lived experience or ancestral knowledge) or work in fields that intersect with water (like health, farming, housing, planning, etc.) please submit your information to us!

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