Color Of Water

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

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Talia London

The Common Acre

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Victor Galvan

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

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Aria Harris

TYLin

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Olga Cano

HUD

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Walt Walker

TYLin

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Roland Jones

CIS

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Esteban Ortiz

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

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Afia Zakiya

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

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Benu Amun Ra

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

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Paula Buchanan

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

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Moises Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

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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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