Color Of Water

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

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado Water Center

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Nasim Pica

Antea Group USA

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Jared Romero

Walton Family Foundation

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Alondra Hernandez

WEAT

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Priscila B R Alves

University of Maryland

Frank Ruiz

Audubon California

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Naveen Adusumilli

Louisiana State University

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Maritza Mendoza

GreenLatinos

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Olga Cano

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

shama perveen

CERES

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Esteban Ortiz

Columbia Riverkeeper

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Chakena Perry

NRDC

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Michael Mendez

UC Irvine

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Nahal Ghoghaie

Kearns & West

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Jacob Bernal

Washington State University

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Fernando Ramirez

Hydraloop Inc.

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Paula Buchanan

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

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Ruthie Redmond

Trimtab Sustainable Waters

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos / CO Dept. of Public Health and Env.

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Services

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Tanner Yess

Groundwork Ohio River Valley

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

Environmental Defense Fund

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Nadine Robertson

Manchac Management Services and Consulting Group

Thea Louis

Duke Energy Corporation

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Alex Ortiz

Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Ngodoo Atume

UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Jorge Roman-Romero

Georgetown University Law Center

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Vicky Espinoza

The Nature Conservancy

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Victor Galvan

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

Elizabeth Ruiz

Salmon and Steelhead Monitoring Program

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

martin griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Jared Romero

Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Jahan Taganova

One Young World Peace Ambassador

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Afia Zakiya

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

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Rachele Lopez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Jeremiah Muhammad

Blacks In Green

Roland Jones

CIS

Billie Li

Massachusetts Department of Transportation

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Emma Robbins

Planet Woman

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium/University of California Santa Cruz

Vidya Balasubramanyam

Coastal States Organization

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Emily Raquel Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

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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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