Color Of Water
Elevating Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and other voices of color to change the narrative around water.
Martin Griffin
Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District
Heather Tanana
University of California, Irvine
Damian Shapes Padilla
Spirit Rock Consulting
Lenise Marrero
Brown and Caldwell
Nadine Robertson
Veolia North America
Talia London
The Common Acre
Angela Guyadeen
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Bridget Ray
Washington State Department of Commerce
Joaquin Esquivel
California State Water Resources Control Board
Rhysea Agrawal
The Xylom
Cate Caldwell
Illinois Environmental Council
Chakena Sims
NRDC
Julian Gonzalez
Earthjustice
Tiffany Sevilla
Greenprint Partners
Nathaniel I Kollie
University of California Santa Cruz
Angela M Chalk
Healthy Community Resources Services
Carolan Sonderegger
For Love of Water
Victor Galvan
Denver Mayor's Office for Climate Action, Sustainability and Resilience
Danielle Rivera
University of California Berkeley
Patricia Lindsay-Harvey
Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority
Val Schull
GreenLatinos
Emily Warren Armitano
Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Nusrat Molla
Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University
Angela Mooney D’Arcy
Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples
Billie Li
Wright-Pierce
Ani Jayakaran
Washington State University
Alex Ortiz
Austin Water and Wastewater Commission
Brenda Coley
Milwaukee Water Commons
André Sanchez
California Wilderness Coalition
John Echohawk
Native American Rights Fund
Bleu Adams
IndigeHub
Lucero Sanchez
San Diego Coastkeeper
Alastair Bitsóí
Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President
Nahal G. Ipakchi
BluePoint Planning
Esteban Ortiz
The Gorge Association of Aspirations/La Asociacion de Aspiraciones del Gorge
Tanner Yess
Groundwork USA
Pallavi Bharadwaj
SEG
Ayako Tischler
Moonshot Missions
Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
Nicole Nelson
Equity Legal Services, Inc
Tanasia Swift
Billion Oyster Project
Briana Muñoz
Pacific Coast Carbon LLC
Felice Green
Milwaukee Water Commons
Oday Salim
University of Michigan Law School
Bre’Shaun Reddick
Alliance for the Great Lakes
Jasmine Walker
IMPACT Community Action
Rhea Drozdenko
Connecticut River Conservancy
Pita Juarez
Comms Consultant
Ruthie Redmond
UC Berkeley
José M. Rodríguez-Flores
California State University, Monterey Bay
Sanjiv Sinha
Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.
Aria Harris
TYLin
Ehab Meselhe
Tulane University
Vicky Espinoza
CaliWaterAg
Walt Walker
TYLin
Nicole Chavas
Greenprint Partners
Beth Roach
Sierra Club
Gabe Vasquez
US Congress
Newsha Ajami
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Sonali Abraham
Pacific Institute
maritza mendoza
Empower DC
Nikki Tulley
University of Arizona
Nataly Escobedo Garcia
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Daniela Sherrill
ASU / AZ Water for All
Priscila Alves
University of Maryland
Sarah Traore
The University of Texas at Austin
Thea Louis
MSC Industrial Supply Co.
Sydney Garcia
The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Carlos Calderon
West Michigan Environmental Action Council
Kedar Dabhadkar
Lam Research
Arohi Sharma
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Charming Evelyn
OceanWell Water
Sapna Mulki
Environmental Policy Innovation Center
Joy Banner
The Descendants Project
Vinicius Taguchi
North Carolina State University
Elizabeth Ruiz
CA State Water Resources Control Board
Ean Tafoya
GreenLatinos
Breanna Gonzalez
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Maria Elena Kennedy
Kennedy Communications, Inc
Harshini Ratnayaka
Save the Dunes
Gia Moreno
Hood Community Council
Jahan Taganova
City and County of Denver
Kabir Thatte
The Vessel Collective
Marc Oliver Quijano
Jacobs
Carlos Moran
Northeast Trees
Cyatharine Alias
Center for Neighborhood Technology
Daniel Cordalis
Native American Rights Fund
Quentin Stubbs
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Tony Bridges
The Maryland General Assembly
Crystal Davis
National Parks Conservation Association
Emma Robbins
The Chapter House
Andrian Lee
BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC
Shama Perveen
CERES
Jessica Thrasher
Colorado State University
Rene Henery
Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno
Andrea León-Grossmann
Vote Solar
Jessica Dandridge-Smith
The Water Collaborative
Nasim Pica
WSP in the U.S.
Alyssa Senturk
California Water Data Consortium
Chauncey Foster
we.grow.eco
Roland Jones
CIS
Charles Cassagnol
Western Ecology, LLC
Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz
Greenroots Institute
Crystal Sanders-Alvarado
Seaworthy
Huda Alkaff
Wisconsin Green Muslims
Paula Buchanan
National Center for Domestic Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia Climate School
Cathie Chavez-Morris
Equidad Group
Silvia R. Gonzalez
UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute
Maisah Khan
Regenerative Agriculture Foundation
Usman Mahmood
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Ciara Horne
SBG Digital
Sri Vedachalam
Cisolutions
Analise Rivero
California Trout
Dira Johanif
Charles River Climate Compact
Pablo Ortiz
Union of Concerned Scientists
Kimbaya Carriere
Nuxalk First Nation
Temiloluwa Akinyemi
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Ngodoo Atume
UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
Pedro Hernandez
GreenLatinos
Olga Cano
HUD
Parsa Saffarinia
University of California, Davis
Xochitl Bervera
Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters
Ashwin Dhanasekar
Brown and Caldwell
Fernando Ramirez
Bridges 2023 International
Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes
GreenLatinos
Frank Ruiz
The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz
Ed Marin
Louisville Water
Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš
Azul
Rob Larson
Grand Valley State University
Benu Amun Ra
S.A.C.R.Ed Eco-Center
Jeremy Orr
Earthjustice
Julia Fay Bernal
Pueblo Action Alliance
Arsum Pathak
National Wildlife Federation
maritza mendoza
Empower DC
Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Michael Méndez
UC Irvine
Alai Reyes-Santos
University of Oregon
Cheyanne Harris
Brown and Caldwell
Sidney Opiyo
University of California, Santa Cruz
Mallika Nocco
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jazmin Ricks
University of Pennsylvania
Afia Zakiya
Independent Africana Studies and EJ scholar-activist, currently Executive Director of Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation
Allen Townsend
World Wildlife Fund
Oluwole (OJ) McFoy
Houston Public Works
Monica Driggers
Massachusetts Rivers Alliance
Dezaraye Bagalayos
Allensworth Progressive Association
Susana De Anda
Community Water Center
Chriscilia Cox
SUMA Consulting LLC
Cheyenne Holliday
Verde
Keiko Wilkins
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Rachele Lopez
Justice Outside
Cindy Donis
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice
Diana Piña Yitbarek
NC Department of Environmental Quality
Shandin Pete
University of British Columbia
Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George
Ferris Institute
Jaiden Willeto
Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop
Adriana Renteria
State Water Board
Marccus Hendricks
University of Maryland - College Park
Veronica Garibay
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Mahtaab Bagherzadeh
NWF/Clean Water for All
Jacob Bernal
American Rivers
Alondra Hernandez-Bose
WEAT
Nureen Faiza Anisha
Oregon State University
Olga Morales Pate
Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated
Khalid Osman
Stanford University
Jo Banner
The Descendants Project
Cate Mingoya-LaFortune
Groundwork USA
Sandi Matsumoto
The Nature Conservancy
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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 importance of equity in the water world.
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