Color Of Water

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

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Nasim Pica

Weston Solutions, Inc.

Alastair Bitsóí

Inside Climate News

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Priscila B R Alves

University of Maryland

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Jared Romero

Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc

Tanner Yess

Groundwork Ohio River Valley

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Victor Galvan

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

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Thea Louis

Duke Energy Corporation

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Vidya Balasubramanyam

Coastal States Organization

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Ruthie Redmond

Trimtab Sustainable Waters

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Chakena Perry

NRDC

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Services

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Michael Mendez

UC Irvine

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Fernando Ramirez

Hydraloop Inc.

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado Water Center

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Roland Jones

CIS

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Billie Li

Massachusetts Department of Transportation

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Naveen Adusumilli

Louisiana State University

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos / CO Dept. of Public Health and Env.

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Carlos Calderon

Wmeac

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Maritza Mendoza

GreenLatinos

Paula Buchanan

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

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Nadine Robertson

Manchac Management Services and Consulting Group

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Ngodoo Atume

UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

Environmental Defense Fund

Vicky Espinoza

The Nature Conservancy

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Anita Shervington

BLAST Fest

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Kimbaya Carriere

First Nations Fisheries Council- Water For Fish

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Frank Ruiz

Audubon California

santos samayoa

Comms Consultant

Rachele Lopez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Elizabeth Ruiz

Salmon and Steelhead Monitoring Program

Olga Cano

Environmental Protection Agency

Shama Perveen

CERES

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Maritza Mendoza

GreenLatinos

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Jeremiah Muhammad

Blacks In Green

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Esteban Ortiz

Columbia Riverkeeper

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Alondra Hernandez

WEAT

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Nahal Ghoghaie

Kearns & West

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Emma Robbins

Planet Woman

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Afia Zakiya

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

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Alex Ortiz

Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Jahan Taganova

One Young World Peace Ambassador

Jacob Bernal

Washington State University

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Emily Raquel Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Nasim Pica

Antea Group USA

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium/University of California Santa Cruz

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Jorge Roman-Romero

Georgetown University Law Center

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Marleen Villanueva

Department of Women and Gender Studies at Texas Christian University

Damian Shapes Padilla

Georgetown University

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Kristi Pullen Fedinick

The George Washington University

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

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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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