Color Of Water

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

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Aria Harris

TYLin

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Esteban Ortiz

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

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Talia London

The Common Acre

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Portia Shepherd

www.blackbeltwomenrising.org

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Walt Walker

TYLin

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Afia Zakiya

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

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Paula Buchanan

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

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Shama Perveen

CERES

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Jasmine Walker

IMPACT Community Action

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Benu Amun Ra

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

Victor Galvan

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

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Olga Cano

HUD

Roland Jones

CIS

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

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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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