Color Of Water

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

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Afia Zakiya

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

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Olga Cano

HUD

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Walt Walker

TYLin

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Benu Amun Ra

S.A.C.R.Ed Eco-Center

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Roland Jones

CIS

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Aria Harris

TYLin

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Paula Buchanan

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

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Esteban Ortiz

The Gorge Association of Aspirations/La Asociacion de Aspiraciones del Gorge

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Talia London

The Common Acre

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Victor Galvan

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

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

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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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