Color Of Water

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

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Carlos Calderon

Wmeac

Charming Evelyn

Sierra Club

Thea Louis

Wellesley College

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability

Nasim Pica

Weston Solutions, Inc.

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Buffalo Sewer Authority

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Rachele Lopez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos / CO Dept. of Public Health and Env.

Jacob Bernal

Washington State University

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Priscila B R Alves

University of Maryland

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Naveen Adusumilli

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Victor Galvan

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

Billie Li

Massachusetts Department of Transportation

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Afia Zakiya

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

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Vinigus Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Ruthie Redmond

Trimtab Sustainable Waters

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Shama Perveen

CERES

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Frank Ruiz

Audubon California

Jared Romero

Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc

Esteban Ortiz

Columbia Riverkeeper

Jorge Roman-Romero

Georgetown University Law Center

Jahan Taganova

One Young World Peace Ambassador

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Alastair Bitsóí

Inside Climate News

Ngodoo Atume

UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Nahal Ghoghaie

Kearns & West

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Tanner Yess

Groundwork Ohio River Valley

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Alondra Hernandez

WEAT

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Fernando Ramirez

Hydraloop Inc.

Vidya Balasubramanyam

Coastal States Organization

Kristi Pullen Fedinick

The George Washington University

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Ciara Horne

University of Virginia

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Elizabeth Ruiz

Salmon and Steelhead Monitoring Program

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Damian Shapes Padilla

Georgetown University

Vicky Espinoza

The Nature Conservancy

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Quentin Stubbs

NOAA

Pita Juarez

Field + Media Corps

Chakena Perry

NRDC

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Anita Shervington

BLAST Fest

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Maritza Mendoza

GreenLatinos

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Marleen Villanueva

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Roland Jones

CIS

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado Water Center

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Emma Robbins

Planet Woman

Bridget Ray

The Salish Sea Collective

Dr. Angela Chalk

Healthy Community Services

Sarah Traore

Charles River Watershed Association Inc.

Emily Raquel Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

Environmental Defense Fund

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Kimbaya Carriere

First Nations Fisheries Council- Water For Fish

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Olga Cano

Environmental Protection Agency

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Nadine Robertson

Manchac Management Services and Consulting Group

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Shreya Agrawal

The Xylom

Breanna González

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Michael Mendez

UC Irvine

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Jeremiah Muhammad

Blacks In Green

Alex Ortiz

Sierra Club

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

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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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Learn about the what, why, how, and when of the Color of Water from this interview with our Relationships Manager, José by Waterloop.

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