Color Of Water

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

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Victor Galvan

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

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Benu Amun Ra

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

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Paula Buchanan

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

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Talia London

The Common Acre

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Aria Harris

TYLin

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Roland Jones

CIS

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Afia Zakiya

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

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Esteban Ortiz

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

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Olga Cano

HUD

Walt Walker

TYLin

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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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