Color Of Water

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

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Shama Perveen

CERES

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Victor Galvan

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

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Emma Robbins

Planet Woman

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Frank Ruiz

Audubon California

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Esteban Ortiz

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

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Olga Cano

HUD

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

Environmental Defense Fund

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Walt Walker

TYLin

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Aria Harris

TYLin

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

martin griffin

madison metropolitan sewerage district

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Paula Buchanan

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

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Naveen Adusumilli

Louisiana State University

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Alexis Roig

United Nations University

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Roland Jones

CIS

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Talia London

The Common Acre

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Vidya Balasubramanyam

Coastal States Organization

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Priscila B R Alves

University of Maryland

Afia Zakiya

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

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Benu Amun Ra

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

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Jasmine Walker

IMPACT Community Action

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

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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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