Color Of Water

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

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Benu Amun Ra

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

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Esteban Ortiz

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

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Olga Cano

HUD

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Aria Harris

TYLin

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Afia Zakiya

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

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Walt Walker

TYLin

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Victor Galvan

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

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Andrea León-Grossmann

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Roland Jones

CIS

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Paula Buchanan

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

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Talia London

The Common Acre

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

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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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