Color Of Water

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

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Paula Buchanan

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

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Talia London

The Common Acre

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Aria Harris

TYLin

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Esteban Ortiz

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

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Olga Cano

HUD

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Victor Galvan

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

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Roland Jones

CIS

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Benu Amun Ra

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

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Afia Zakiya

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

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Walt Walker

TYLin

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

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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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