Color Of Water

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

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Shama Perveen

CERES

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Aria Harris

TYLin

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Walt Walker

TYLin

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Victor Galvan

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

Talia London

The Common Acre

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Paula Buchanan

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

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Benu Amun Ra

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

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Roland Jones

CIS

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Jasmine Walker

IMPACT Community Action

Afia Zakiya

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

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Esteban Ortiz

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

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Olga Cano

HUD

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

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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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