Color Of Water

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

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Benu Amun Ra

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

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Afia Zakiya

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

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Aria Harris

TYLin

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Talia London

The Common Acre

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Paula Buchanan

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

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Esteban Ortiz

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

Olga Cano

HUD

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Roland Jones

CIS

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Walt Walker

TYLin

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Victor Galvan

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

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

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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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