Color Of Water
Elevating Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and other voices of color to change the narrative around water.
Jessica Thrasher
Colorado Water Center
Arsum Pathak
National Wildlife Federation
Ehab Meselhe
Tulane University
Nasim Pica
Antea Group USA
Daniela Sherrill
ASU / AZ Water for All
Ashwin Dhanasekar
Brown and Caldwell
Bleu Adams
IndigeHub
Cate Caldwell
Illinois Environmental Council
Rhea Drozdenko
Connecticut River Conservancy
Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George
Ferris Institute
Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Arohi Sharma
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Kimbaya Carriere
Nuxalk First Nation
Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
Heather Tanana
University of California, Irvine
Mahtaab Bagherzadeh
NWF/Clean Water for All
Kedar Dabhadkar
Lam Research
Jared Romero
Walton Family Foundation
Beth Roach
Sierra Club
Joy Banner
The Descendants Project
Alondra Hernandez
WEAT
Parsa Saffarinia
University of California, Davis
Sandi Matsumoto
The Nature Conservancy
Rhysea Agrawal
The Xylom
Jo Banner
The Descendants Project
Val Schull
GreenLatinos
Sri Vedachalam
Cisolutions
Priscila B R Alves
University of Maryland
Frank Ruiz
Audubon California
Daniel Cordalis
Native American Rights Fund
Naveen Adusumilli
Louisiana State University
Cheyenne Holliday
Verde
Jaiden Willeto
Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop
Adriana Renteria
State Water Board
Quentin Stubbs
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Lucero Sanchez
San Diego Coastkeeper
Nataly Escobedo Garcia
Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability
Ciara Horne
SBG Digital
Maritza Mendoza
GreenLatinos
Newsha Ajami
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Charming Evelyn
OceanWell Water
Jessica Dandridge-Smith
The Water Collaborative
Crystal Davis
National Parks Conservation Association
Jazmin Ricks
University of Pennsylvania
Julia Fay Bernal
Pueblo Action Alliance
Chauncey Foster
we.grow.eco
Andrian Lee
BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC
Felice Green
Milwaukee Water Commons
Dezaraye Bagalayos
Allensworth Progressive Association
Harshini Ratnayaka
Save the Dunes
Rene Henery
Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno
Lenise Marrero
Brown and Caldwell
Gia Moreno
Hood Community Council
Charles Cassagnol
Western Ecology, LLC
Olga Cano
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Pallavi Bharadwaj
SEG
Sydney Garcia
The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
shama perveen
CERES
Marccus Hendricks
University of Maryland - College Park
Oluwole (OJ) McFoy
Houston Public Works
Esteban Ortiz
Columbia Riverkeeper
Sidney Opiyo
University of California, Santa Cruz
Chakena Perry
NRDC
Pedro Hernandez
GreenLatinos
Michael Mendez
UC Irvine
Carolan Sonderegger
For Love of Water
Xochitl Bervera
Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters
Joaquin Esquivel
California State Water Resources Control Board
Angela Guyadeen
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Damian Shapes Padilla
Spirit Rock Consulting
Huda Alkaff
Wisconsin Green Muslims
Nahal Ghoghaie
Kearns & West
Carlos Moran
Northeast Trees
Jacob Bernal
Washington State University
Cate Mingoya-LaFortune
Groundwork USA
Monica Driggers
Massachusetts Rivers Alliance
Alai Reyes-Santos
University of Oregon
Nathaniel I Kollie
University of California Santa Cruz
Briana Muñoz
Pacific Coast Carbon LLC
Fernando Ramirez
Hydraloop Inc.
Veronica Garibay
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Danielle Rivera
University of California Berkeley
Ayako Tischler
Moonshot Missions
Diana Piña Yitbarek
NC Department of Environmental Quality
Paula Buchanan
National Center for Domestic Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia Climate School
Brenda Coley
Milwaukee Water Commons
Pita Juarez
Comms Consultant
Ruthie Redmond
Trimtab Sustainable Waters
Jeremy Orr
Earthjustice
Carlos Calderon
West Michigan Environmental Action Council
Crystal Sanders-Alvarado
Seaworthy
Ean Tafoya
GreenLatinos / CO Dept. of Public Health and Env.
Angela M Chalk
Healthy Community Services
Ani Jayakaran
Washington State University
Tanner Yess
Groundwork Ohio River Valley
Keiko Wilkins
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Marc Oliver Quijano
Jacobs
José M. Rodríguez-Flores
Environmental Defense Fund
Sanjiv Sinha
Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.
Nicole Nelson
Equity Legal Services, Inc
Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš
Azul
Alastair Bitsóí
Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President
Nadine Robertson
Manchac Management Services and Consulting Group
Thea Louis
Duke Energy Corporation
Khalid Osman
Stanford University
Alex Ortiz
Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter
Nikki Tulley
University of Arizona
Ngodoo Atume
UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences
Bridget Ray
Washington State Department of Commerce
Cheyanne Harris
Brown and Caldwell
Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz
Greenroots Institute
Jorge Roman-Romero
Georgetown University Law Center
Maisah Khan
Regenerative Agriculture Foundation
Vicky Espinoza
The Nature Conservancy
Silvia R. Gonzalez
UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute
Vinicius Taguchi
North Carolina State University
Victor Galvan
Denver Mayor's Office for Climate Action, Sustainability and Resilience
Elizabeth Ruiz
Salmon and Steelhead Monitoring Program
Dira Johanif
Charles River Climate Compact
Susana De Anda
Community Water Center
martin griffin
Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District
Jared Romero
Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc
Nusrat Molla
Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University
Gabe Vasquez
US Congress
Cyatharine Alias
Center for Neighborhood Technology
Sonali Abraham
Pacific Institute
Jahan Taganova
One Young World Peace Ambassador
André Sanchez
California Wilderness Coalition
Afia Zakiya
Independent Africana Studies and EJ scholar-activist, currently Executive Director of Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation
Shandin Pete
University of British Columbia
Tony Bridges
The Maryland General Assembly
Nureen Faiza Anisha
Oregon State University
Rachele Lopez
San Diego Coastkeeper
Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes
GreenLatinos
Nicole Chavas
Greenprint Partners
John Echohawk
Native American Rights Fund
Angela Mooney D’Arcy
Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples
Tanasia Swift
Billion Oyster Project
Chriscilia Cox
SUMA Consulting LLC
Jeremiah Muhammad
Blacks In Green
Roland Jones
CIS
Billie Li
Massachusetts Department of Transportation
Cindy Donis
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice
Emma Robbins
Planet Woman
Temiloluwa Akinyemi
Monterey Bay Aquarium/University of California Santa Cruz
Vidya Balasubramanyam
Coastal States Organization
Sapna Mulki
Environmental Policy Innovation Center
Breanna Gonzalez
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Analise Rivero
California Trout
Tiffany Sevilla
Greenprint Partners
Cathie Chavez-Morris
Equidad Group
Rob Larson
Grand Valley State University
Andrea León-Grossmann
Vote Solar
Oday Salim
University of Michigan Law School
Alyssa Senturk
California Water Data Consortium
Sarah Traore
The University of Texas at Austin
Julian Gonzalez
Earthjustice
Ed Marin
Louisville Water
Pablo Ortiz
Union of Concerned Scientists
Maria Elena Kennedy
Kennedy Communications, Inc
Emily Raquel Warren Armitano
Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
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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 launch of the Color of Water directory and the importance of equity and inclusion in the water world.
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