Color Of Water

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

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Victor Galvan

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

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Paula Buchanan

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

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Talia London

The Common Acre

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Olga Cano

HUD

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Walt Walker

TYLin

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Benu Amun Ra

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

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Afia Zakiya

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

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Aria Harris

TYLin

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Roland Jones

CIS

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Analise Rivero

California Trout

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Esteban Ortiz

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

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

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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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