Color Of Water

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

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Victor Galvan

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

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Esteban Ortiz

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

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Olga Cano

HUD

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Afia Zakiya

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

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Aria Harris

TYLin

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Walt Walker

TYLin

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Roland Jones

CIS

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Talia London

The Common Acre

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Paula Buchanan

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

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Benu Amun Ra

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

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Andrea León-Grossmann

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

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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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