Color Of Water

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

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Shama Perveen

Ceres

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Paula Buchanan

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

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Guadalupe F

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Victor Galvan

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

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Roland Jones

CIS

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Aria Harris

TYLin

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Benu Amun Ra

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

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Afia Zakiya

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

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Esteban Ortiz

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

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Walt Walker

TYLin

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Olga Cano

HUD

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Talia London

The Common Acre

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

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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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