Color Of Water

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

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Aria Harris

TYLin

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Jasmine Walker

IMPACT Community Action

Afia Zakiya

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

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Benu Amun Ra

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

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Roland Jones

CIS

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Olga Cano

HUD

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Walt Walker

TYLin

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Portia Shepherd

www.blackbeltwomenrising.org

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Paula Buchanan

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

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Shama Perveen

CERES

Esteban Ortiz

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

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Talia London

The Common Acre

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Victor Galvan

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

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

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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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