Color Of Water

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

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Paula Buchanan

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

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Olga Cano

HUD

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Afia Zakiya

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

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Roland Jones

CIS

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Benu Amun Ra

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

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Esteban Ortiz

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

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Aria Harris

TYLin

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Victor Galvan

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

Talia London

The Common Acre

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Walt Walker

TYLin

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

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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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