Color Of Water

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

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Benu Amun Ra

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

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Talia London

The Common Acre

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Roland Jones

CIS

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Paula Buchanan

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

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Esteban Ortiz

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

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Afia Zakiya

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

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Victor Galvan

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

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Olga Cano

HUD

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Aria Harris

TYLin

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Walt Walker

TYLin

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

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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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