Color Of Water

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

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

shama perveen

Ceres

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Victor Galvan

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

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Portia Shepherd

www.blackbeltwomenrising.org

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Benu Amun Ra

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

Walt Walker

TYLin

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Afia Zakiya

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

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Aria Harris

TYLin

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Roland Jones

CIS

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Talia London

The Common Acre

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Paula Buchanan

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

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Esteban Ortiz

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

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Olga Cano

HUD

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Jasmine Walker

IMPACT Community Action

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

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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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