Color Of Water
Elevating Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and other voices of color to change the narrative around water.
Rachele Lopez
Justice Outside
Jasmine Walker
IMPACT Community Action
Dezaraye Bagalayos
Allensworth Progressive Association
Cheyenne Holliday
Verde
Chriscilia Cox
SUMA Consulting LLC
Sarah Traore
The University of Texas at Austin
Beth Roach
Sierra Club
Sapna Mulki
Environmental Policy Innovation Center
John Echohawk
Native American Rights Fund
Nusrat Molla
Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University
Allen Townsend
World Wildlife Fund
Walt Walker
TYLin
Thea Louis
MSC Industrial Supply Co.
Ed Marin
Louisville Water
Maisah Khan
Regenerative Agriculture Foundation
Cathie Chavez-Morris
Equidad Group
Mahtaab Bagherzadeh
NWF/Clean Water for All
Alai Reyes-Santos
University of Oregon
Dira Johanif
Charles River Climate Compact
Silvia R. Gonzalez
UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute
Martin Griffin
Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District
Kimbaya Carriere
Nuxalk First Nation
Felice Green
Milwaukee Water Commons
Danielle Rivera
University of California Berkeley
Carlos Calderon
West Michigan Environmental Action Council
Ani Jayakaran
Washington State University
Olga Morales Pate
Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated
Pedro Hernandez
GreenLatinos
Joaquin Esquivel
California State Water Resources Control Board
Alondra Hernandez-Bose
WEAT
Andrea León-Grossmann
Vote Solar
Xochitl Bervera
Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters
Diana Piña Yitbarek
NC Department of Environmental Quality
Chauncey Foster
we.grow.eco
Brenda Coley
Milwaukee Water Commons
Jessica Thrasher
Colorado State University
Lucero Sanchez
San Diego Coastkeeper
Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
Benu Amun Ra
S.A.C.R.Ed Eco-Center
André Sanchez
California Wilderness Coalition
Jacob Bernal
American Rivers
Elizabeth Ruiz
CA State Water Resources Control Board
Nathaniel I Kollie
University of California Santa Cruz
Cyatharine Alias
Center for Neighborhood Technology
Arohi Sharma
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Emily Warren Armitano
Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Jo Banner
The Descendants Project
Sidney Opiyo
University of California, Santa Cruz
Charming Evelyn
OceanWell Water
Aria Harris
TYLin
Alex Ortiz
Austin Water and Wastewater Commission
Jazmin Ricks
University of Pennsylvania
Chakena Sims
NRDC
Julian Gonzalez
Earthjustice
Nureen Faiza Anisha
Oregon State University
Ruthie Redmond
UC Berkeley
Tiffany Sevilla
Greenprint Partners
Susana De Anda
Community Water Center
Daniela Sherrill
ASU / AZ Water for All
Nadine Robertson
Veolia North America
Veronica Garibay
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Vinicius Taguchi
North Carolina State University
Nahal G. Ipakchi
BluePoint Planning
Mallika Nocco
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Crystal Sanders-Alvarado
Seaworthy
Talia London
The Common Acre
Olga Cano
HUD
Paula Buchanan
National Center for Domestic Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia Climate School
Temiloluwa Akinyemi
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Carlos Moran
Northeast Trees
Angela Mooney D’Arcy
Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples
Esteban Ortiz
The Gorge Association of Aspirations/La Asociacion de Aspiraciones del Gorge
Jaiden Willeto
Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop
Joy Banner
The Descendants Project
Briana Muñoz
Pacific Coast Carbon LLC
Oday Salim
University of Michigan Law School
Ehab Meselhe
Tulane University
maritza mendoza
Empower DC
Michael Méndez
UC Irvine
Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes
GreenLatinos
Sonali Abraham
Pacific Institute
Angela Guyadeen
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Roland Jones
CIS
Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George
Ferris Institute
Lenise Marrero
Brown and Caldwell
Gabe Vasquez
US Congress
Rhea Drozdenko
Connecticut River Conservancy
Pallavi Bharadwaj
SEG
Tanner Yess
Groundwork USA
Rob Larson
Grand Valley State University
Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš
Azul
Daniel Cordalis
Native American Rights Fund
Vicky Espinoza
CaliWaterAg
Rhysea Agrawal
The Xylom
Cate Caldwell
Illinois Environmental Council
Angela M Chalk
Healthy Community Resources Services
Pablo Ortiz
Union of Concerned Scientists
Parsa Saffarinia
University of California, Davis
Analise Rivero
California Trout
Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz
Greenroots Institute
Harshini Ratnayaka
Save the Dunes
Sandi Matsumoto
The Nature Conservancy
Bleu Adams
IndigeHub
Ayako Tischler
Moonshot Missions
Nicole Chavas
Greenprint Partners
Marccus Hendricks
University of Maryland - College Park
Carolan Sonderegger
For Love of Water
Afia Zakiya
Independent Africana Studies and EJ scholar-activist, currently Executive Director of Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation
Bre’Shaun Reddick
Alliance for the Great Lakes
José M. Rodríguez-Flores
California State University, Monterey Bay
Adriana Renteria
State Water Board
Ashwin Dhanasekar
Brown and Caldwell
Khalid Osman
Stanford University
Damian Shapes Padilla
Spirit Rock Consulting
Sri Vedachalam
Cisolutions
Julia Fay Bernal
Pueblo Action Alliance
Victor Galvan
Denver Mayor's Office for Climate Action, Sustainability and Resilience
Breanna Gonzalez
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Pita Juarez
Comms Consultant
Oluwole (OJ) McFoy
Houston Public Works
Bridget Ray
Washington State Department of Commerce
Heather Tanana
University of California, Irvine
Alyssa Senturk
California Water Data Consortium
Sydney Garcia
The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Ngodoo Atume
UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
Charles Cassagnol
Western Ecology, LLC
Rene Henery
Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno
Cate Mingoya-LaFortune
Groundwork USA
Marc Oliver Quijano
Jacobs
Huda Alkaff
Wisconsin Green Muslims
Jahan Taganova
City and County of Denver
Shama Perveen
CERES
Usman Mahmood
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Nikki Tulley
University of Arizona
Ean Tafoya
GreenLatinos
maritza mendoza
Empower DC
Tony Bridges
The Maryland General Assembly
Andrian Lee
BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC
Kabir Thatte
The Vessel Collective
Keiko Wilkins
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Nasim Pica
WSP in the U.S.
Ciara Horne
SBG Digital
Frank Ruiz
The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz
Kedar Dabhadkar
Lam Research
Gia Moreno
Hood Community Council
Jeremy Orr
Earthjustice
Cheyanne Harris
Brown and Caldwell
Shandin Pete
University of British Columbia
Maria Elena Kennedy
Kennedy Communications, Inc
Alastair Bitsóí
Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President
Newsha Ajami
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Crystal Davis
National Parks Conservation Association
Tanasia Swift
Billion Oyster Project
Val Schull
GreenLatinos
Arsum Pathak
National Wildlife Federation
Priscila Alves
University of Maryland
Monica Driggers
Massachusetts Rivers Alliance
Quentin Stubbs
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Emma Robbins
The Chapter House
Billie Li
Wright-Pierce
Patricia Lindsay-Harvey
Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority
Nataly Escobedo Garcia
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Nicole Nelson
Equity Legal Services, Inc
Fernando Ramirez
Bridges 2023 International
Cindy Donis
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice
Sanjiv Sinha
Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.
Jessica Dandridge-Smith
The Water Collaborative
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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.
Read the joint statement by Color of Water members on the importance of equity in the water world.
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