Color Of Water

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

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

Environmental Defense Fund

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Naveen Adusumilli

Louisiana State University

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Roland Jones

CIS

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Priscila B R Alves

University of Maryland

Chakena Perry

NRDC

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Emma Robbins

Planet Woman

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Allen Townsend, Ph.D., MPA

World Wildlife Fund

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Frank Ruiz

Audubon California

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Olga Cano

HUD

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Vidya Balasubramanyam

Coastal States Organization

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Esteban Ortiz

Gorge Aspirations/ Aspiraciones del Gorge

Walt Walker

TYLin

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Shama Perveen

CERES

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Jeremiah Muhammad

Blacks In Green

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Pallavi Bharadwaj

Society of Exploration Geophysicists

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Talia London

The Common Acre

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Kaiser Ahad

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Paula Buchanan

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

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Afia Zakiya

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

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Jorge Roman-Romero

Bassman, Mitchell, Alfano & Leiter Chtd.

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Victor Galvan

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

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

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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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