Color Of Water
Elevating Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and other voices of color to change the narrative around water.
Aria Harris
TYLin
Maria Elena Kennedy
Kennedy Communications, Inc
Arohi Sharma
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Angela M Chalk
Healthy Community Resources Services
Oday Salim
University of Michigan Law School
Tanner Yess
Groundwork USA
Briana Muñoz
Pacific Coast Carbon LLC
Val Schull
GreenLatinos
Analise Rivero
California Trout
André Sanchez
California Wilderness Coalition
Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George
Ferris Institute
Cindy Donis
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice
Rachele Lopez
Justice Outside
Rene Henery
Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno
Gia Moreno
Hood Community Council
Daniel Cordalis
Native American Rights Fund
Damian Shapes Padilla
Spirit Rock Consulting
Sidney Opiyo
University of California, Santa Cruz
Angela Guyadeen
NRDC
Julian Gonzalez
Earthjustice
Sydney Garcia
The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Emily Warren Armitano
Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Marccus Hendricks
University of Maryland - College Park
Ngodoo Atume
UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
Nikki Tulley
University of Arizona
Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz
Greenroots Institute
Chriscilia Cox
SUMA Consulting LLC
Nataly Escobedo Garcia
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Huda Alkaff
Wisconsin Green Muslims
Lucero Sanchez
San Diego Coastkeeper
Nusrat Molla
Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University
Rhea Drozdenko
Connecticut River Conservancy
Breanna Gonzalez
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Nureen Faiza Anisha
Oregon State University
Allen Townsend
World Wildlife Fund
Portia Shepherd
Blackbelt Women Rising
Michael Méndez
UC Irvine
Khalid Osman
Stanford University
Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
Jahan Taganova
City and County of Denver
Sri Vedachalam
Cisolutions
Ciara Horne
SBG Digital
Vicky Espinoza
CaliWaterAg
Martin Griffin
Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District
Emma Robbins
The Chapter House
Nieves Vazquez
Water For People
Nadine Robertson
Veolia North America
Dezaraye Bagalayos
Allensworth Progressive Association
Susana De Anda
Community Water Center
Jacob Bernal
American Rivers
Chakena Sims
NRDC
Parsa Saffarinia
University of California, Davis
Billie Li
Wright-Pierce
Tiffany Sevilla
Greenprint Partners
Veronica Garibay
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Bre’Shaun Reddick
Alliance for the Great Lakes
Harshini Ratnayaka
Save the Dunes
Alyssa Senturk
California Water Data Consortium
Pallavi Bharadwaj
SEG
Andrian Lee
BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC
Dira Johanif
Charles River Climate Compact
Joaquin Esquivel
California State Water Resources Control Board
Elizabeth Ruiz
CA State Water Resources Control Board
Victor Galvan
Denver Mayor's Office for Climate Action, Sustainability and Resilience
Vinicius Taguchi
North Carolina State University
Mallika Nocco
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Mahtaab Bagherzadeh
NWF/Clean Water for All
Alai Reyes-Santos
University of Oregon
Nahal G. Ipakchi
BluePoint Planning
Carlos Moran
Northeast Trees
Frank Ruiz
The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz
Tony Bridges
The Maryland General Assembly
Alyssa Senturk
California Water Data Consortium
Sandi Matsumoto
The Nature Conservancy
Jahan Taganova
City and County of Denver
Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Rob Larson
Grand Valley State University
Chauncey Foster
we.grow.eco
Jessica Dandridge-Smith
The Water Collaborative
Pita Juarez
Comms Consultant
Jazmin Ricks
University of Pennsylvania
Arsum Pathak
National Wildlife Federation
Sonali Abraham
Pacific Institute
Alex Ortiz
Austin Water and Wastewater Commission
Tanasia Swift
Billion Oyster Project
Crystal Sanders-Alvarado
Seaworthy
Esteban Ortiz
The Gorge Association of Aspirations/La Asociacion de Aspiraciones del Gorge
Nasim Pica
WSP in the U.S.
Daniela Sherrill
ASU / AZ Water for All
Charles Cassagnol
Western Ecology, LLC
Jessica Thrasher
Colorado State University
Carlos Calderon
West Michigan Environmental Action Council
Walt Walker
TYLin
Fernando Ramirez
Bridges 2023 International
Roland Jones
CIS
Priscila Alves
University of Maryland
Paula Buchanan
National Center for Domestic Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia Climate School
Ani Jayakaran
Washington State University
Maisah Khan
Regenerative Agriculture Foundation
Cheyanne Harris
Brown and Caldwell
Julia Fay Bernal
Pueblo Action Alliance
Usman Mahmood
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Patricia Lindsay-Harvey
Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority
Charming Evelyn
OceanWell Water
John Echohawk
Native American Rights Fund
Cheyenne Holliday
Verde
Brenda Coley
Milwaukee Water Commons
Bridget Ray
Washington State Department of Commerce
Shama Perveen
Ceres
Ehab Meselhe
Tulane University
Diana Piña Yitbarek
NC Department of Environmental Quality
Nathaniel I Kollie
University of California Santa Cruz
Sanjiv Sinha
Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.
Cyatharine Alias
Center for Neighborhood Technology
Oluwole (OJ) McFoy
Houston Public Works
Bleu Adams
IndigeHub
Direlle Calica
Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)
Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš
Azul
Afia Zakiya
Independent Africana Studies and EJ scholar-activist, currently Executive Director of Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation
Sarah Traore
The University of Texas at Austin
Pedro Hernandez
GreenLatinos
Heather Tanana
University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Chakena Sims
NRDC
Jo Banner
The Descendants Project
Nicole Chavas
Greenprint Partners
Alastair Bitsóí
Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President
Adriana Renteria
State Water Board
Sapna Mulki
Environmental Policy Innovation Center
Ed Marin
Louisville Water
Keiko Wilkins
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Jasmine Walker
Ohio Environmental Council
Danielle Rivera
University of California Berkeley
Quentin Stubbs
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Ruthie Redmond
UC Berkeley
Rhysea Agrawal
The Xylom
Cate Mingoya-LaFortune
Groundwork USA
Kimbaya Carriere
Nuxalk First Nation
Olga Morales Pate
Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated
Jeremy Orr
Earthjustice
Pablo Ortiz
Union of Concerned Scientists
Marc Oliver Quijano
Jacobs
Ean Tafoya
GreenLatinos
Silvia R. Gonzalez
UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute
Thea Louis
MSC Industrial Supply Co.
Lenise Marrero
Brown and Caldwell
Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes
GreenLatinos
Felice Green
Milwaukee Water Commons
Crystal Davis
National Parks Conservation Association
Alondra Hernandez-Bose
WEAT
Monica Driggers
Massachusetts Rivers Alliance
José M. Rodríguez-Flores
California State University, Monterey Bay
Shandin Pete
University of British Columbia
Andrea León-Grossmann
Vote Solar
Nicole Nelson
Equity Legal Services, Inc
Maritza Mendoza
Empower DC
Temiloluwa Akinyemi
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Olga Cano
HUD
Newsha Ajami
Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
Ayako Tischler
Xylem
Benu Amun Ra
S.A.C.R.Ed Eco-Center
Angela Mooney D’Arcy
Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples
Xochitl Bervera
Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters
Joy Banner
The Descendants Project
Ashwin Dhanasekar
Brown and Caldwell
Cathie Chavez-Morris
Equidad Group
Gabe Vasquez
US Congress
Beth Roach
Sierra Club
Kabir Thatte
The Vessel Collective
Talia London
The Common Acre
Jaiden Willeto
Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop
Cate Caldwell
Illinois Environmental Council
Carolan Sonderegger
For Love of Water
Kedar Dabhadkar
Lam Research
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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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Environmental justice raised over data centers targeting rural NM – KRWG Public Media
GreenLatinos believes states should approach regulation of artificial intelligence data centers from a mindset of community protection and adopt a high bar for regulation. [from

Colorado River Water Access Calls for this Sensible Solution | Opinion – Arizona Institute for Resilience
The old ways of managing the shrinking Colorado River aren't helping Arizona. But there is a way all of the compact states could find a
