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

'Bringing these worlds together' – Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
[from Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability]
