Color Of Water

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

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Tanner Yess

Groundwork Ohio River Valley

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Charming Evelyn

Sierra Club

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

Environmental Defense Fund

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado Water Center

Alastair Bitsóí

Inside Climate News

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Jeremiah Muhammad

Blacks In Green

Naveen Adusumilli

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Ciara Horne

University of Virginia

Chakena Perry

NRDC

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Roland Jones

CIS

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Carlos Calderon

Wmeac

Thea Louis

Wellesley College

Billie Li

Massachusetts Department of Transportation

Shama Perveen

CERES

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Vidya Balasubramanyam

Coastal States Organization

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Pita Juarez

Field + Media Corps

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Fernando Ramirez

Hydraloop Inc.

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Priscila B R Alves

University of Maryland

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Dr. Angela Chalk

Healthy Community Services

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Jahan Taganova

One Young World Peace Ambassador

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos / CO Dept. of Public Health and Env.

Alex Ortiz

Sierra Club

Nadine Robertson

Manchac Management Services and Consulting Group

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Emma Robbins

Planet Woman

Quentin Stubbs

NOAA

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Jared Romero

Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Victor Galvan

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

Maritza Mendoza

GreenLatinos

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Buffalo Sewer Authority

Shreya Agrawal

The Xylom

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Rachele Lopez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Vinigus Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Jorge Roman-Romero

Georgetown University Law Center

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Elizabeth Ruiz

Salmon and Steelhead Monitoring Program

Kimbaya Carriere

First Nations Fisheries Council- Water For Fish

Emily Raquel Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Afia Zakiya

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

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Sarah Traore

Charles River Watershed Association Inc.

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Ruthie Redmond

Trimtab Sustainable Waters

Anita Shervington

BLAST Fest

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Vicky Espinoza

The Nature Conservancy

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Marleen Villanueva

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Nasim Pica

Weston Solutions, Inc.

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Michael Mendez

UC Irvine

Breanna González

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Alondra Hernandez

WEAT

Bridget Ray

The Salish Sea Collective

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Kristi Pullen Fedinick

The George Washington University

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Frank Ruiz

Audubon California

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Esteban Ortiz

Columbia Riverkeeper

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Olga Cano

Environmental Protection Agency

Damian Shapes Padilla

Georgetown University

Jacob Bernal

Washington State University

Nahal Ghoghaie

Kearns & West

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Ngodoo Atume

UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

Marc Oliver Quijano

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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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