Color Of Water

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

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Moises Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Victor Galvan

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

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Benu Amun Ra

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

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Chakena Sims

NRDC

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Roland Jones

CIS

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Esteban Ortiz

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

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Aria Harris

TYLin

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Talia London

The Common Acre

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Olga Cano

HUD

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Walt Walker

TYLin

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Afia Zakiya

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

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Paula Buchanan

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

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

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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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