Color Of Water

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

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Paula Buchanan

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

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Roland Jones

CIS

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Olga Cano

HUD

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Afia Zakiya

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

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Guadalupe F

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Aria Harris

TYLin

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Benu Amun Ra

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

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Esteban Ortiz

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

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Walt Walker

TYLin

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Victor Galvan

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

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Talia London

The Common Acre

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

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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