Color Of Water

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

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Andrea León-Grossmann

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Roland Jones

CIS

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Talia London

The Common Acre

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Olga Cano

HUD

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Walt Walker

TYLin

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Aria Harris

TYLin

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Afia Zakiya

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

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Esteban Ortiz

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

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Victor Galvan

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

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Benu Amun Ra

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

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Paula Buchanan

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

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

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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