Color Of Water

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

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Walt Walker

TYLin

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Talia London

The Common Acre

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Paula Buchanan

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

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Victor Galvan

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

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Benu Amun Ra

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

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Olga Cano

HUD

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Roland Jones

CIS

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Esteban Ortiz

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

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Afia Zakiya

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

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Aria Harris

TYLin

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

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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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