Color Of Water

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

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Talia London

The Common Acre

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Afia Zakiya

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

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Paula Buchanan

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

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Benu Amun Ra

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

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Esteban Ortiz

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

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Roland Jones

CIS

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Olga Cano

HUD

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Walt Walker

TYLin

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Chakena Sims

NRDC

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Victor Galvan

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

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Aria Harris

TYLin

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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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