Color Of Water

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

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Nasim Pica

Weston Solutions, Inc.

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Ruthie Redmond

Trimtab Sustainable Waters

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Jacob Bernal

Washington State University

Kristi Pullen Fedinick

The George Washington University

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Naveen Adusumilli

Damian Shapes Padilla

Georgetown University

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Maritza Mendoza

GreenLatinos

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Kimbaya Carriere

First Nations Fisheries Council- Water For Fish

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Frank Ruiz

Audubon California

Vicky Espinoza

The Nature Conservancy

Jahan Taganova

One Young World Peace Ambassador

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Services

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Nahal Ghoghaie

Kearns & West

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Michael Mendez

UC Irvine

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Thea Louis

Duke Energy Corporation

Jorge Roman-Romero

Georgetown University Law Center

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado Water Center

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Ngodoo Atume

UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Nadine Robertson

Manchac Management Services and Consulting Group

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Rachele Lopez

San Diego Coastkeeper

santos samayoa

Comms Consultant

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos / CO Dept. of Public Health and Env.

Carlos Calderon

Wmeac

Elizabeth Ruiz

Salmon and Steelhead Monitoring Program

Paula Buchanan

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

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Breanna González

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Alex Ortiz

Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Emily Raquel Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Esteban Ortiz

Columbia Riverkeeper

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Billie Li

Massachusetts Department of Transportation

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Shama Perveen

CERES

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

Environmental Defense Fund

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Afia Zakiya

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

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Alondra Hernandez

WEAT

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Buffalo Sewer Authority

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Priscila B R Alves

University of Maryland

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Shreya Agrawal

The Xylom

Chakena Perry

NRDC

Emma Robbins

Planet Woman

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium/University of California Santa Cruz

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Marleen Villanueva

Department of Women and Gender Studies at Texas Christian University

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Anita Shervington

BLAST Fest

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Fernando Ramirez

Hydraloop Inc.

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Victor Galvan

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

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Alastair Bitsóí

Inside Climate News

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Roland Jones

CIS

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Vidya Balasubramanyam

Coastal States Organization

Bridget Ray

The Salish Sea Collective

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Tanner Yess

Groundwork Ohio River Valley

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Olga Cano

Environmental Protection Agency

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Jared Romero

Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc

Jeremiah Muhammad

Blacks In Green

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

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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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