Color Of Water

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

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Talia London

The Common Acre

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Victor Galvan

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

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Esteban Ortiz

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

Benu Amun Ra

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

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Walt Walker

TYLin

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Aria Harris

TYLin

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Olga Cano

HUD

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Afia Zakiya

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

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Roland Jones

CIS

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Paula Buchanan

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

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

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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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