Color Of Water

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

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Paula Buchanan

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

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Walt Walker

TYLin

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Benu Amun Ra

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

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Roland Jones

CIS

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Andrea León-Grossmann

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Victor Galvan

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

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Talia London

The Common Acre

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Afia Zakiya

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

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Olga Cano

HUD

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Esteban Ortiz

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

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Aria Harris

TYLin

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Sydney Garcia

The 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.


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