Color Of Water

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

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Afia Zakiya

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

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Benu Amun Ra

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

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Aria Harris

TYLin

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Talia London

The Common Acre

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Esteban Ortiz

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

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

shama perveen

Ceres

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Olga Cano

HUD

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Paula Buchanan

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

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Walt Walker

TYLin

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Victor Galvan

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

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Roland Jones

CIS

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

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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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