Color Of Water

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

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Andrea León-Grossmann

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Roland Jones

CIS

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Paula Buchanan

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

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Victor Galvan

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

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Afia Zakiya

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

Esteban Ortiz

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

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Sanjay Banka

Banka BioLoo Limited and Banka Earth Foundation

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Walt Walker

TYLin

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Talia London

The Common Acre

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Benu Amun Ra

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

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Aria Harris

TYLin

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Olga Cano

HUD

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

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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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