Color Of Water

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

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Paula Buchanan

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

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Olga Cano

HUD

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Talia London

The Common Acre

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Walt Walker

TYLin

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Benu Amun Ra

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

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Roland Jones

CIS

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Aria Harris

TYLin

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Victor Galvan

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

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Afia Zakiya

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

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Esteban Ortiz

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

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

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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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