Color Of Water

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

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Roland Jones

CIS

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Paula Buchanan

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

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Frank Ruiz

Audubon California

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Pallavi Bharadwaj

Society of Exploration Geophysicists

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Esteban Ortiz

Gorge Aspirations/ Aspiraciones del Gorge

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Naveen Adusumilli

Louisiana State University

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Victor Galvan

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

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Talia London

The Common Acre

emily warren armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium/University of California Santa Cruz

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Michael Mendez

UC Irvine

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Services

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Vidya Balasubramanyam

Coastal States Organization

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Jeremiah Muhammad

Blacks In Green

Jorge Roman-Romero

Bassman, Mitchell, Alfano & Leiter Chtd.

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Jacob Bernal

Washington State University

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Emma Robbins

Planet Woman

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Chakena Perry

NRDC

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

Environmental Defense Fund

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Priscila B R Alves

University of Maryland

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Afia Zakiya

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

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Olga Cano

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Shama Perveen

CERES

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Walt Walker

TYLin

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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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