Color Of Water

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

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Victor Galvan

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

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Afia Zakiya

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

Walt Walker

TYLin

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Paula Buchanan

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

Aria Harris

TYLin

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Talia London

The Common Acre

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Esteban Ortiz

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

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Roland Jones

CIS

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Benu Amun Ra

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

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Andrea León-Grossmann

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Olga Cano

HUD

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

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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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