Color Of Water

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

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Victor Galvan

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

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Talia London

The Common Acre

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Olga Cano

HUD

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Jasmine Walker

IMPACT Community Action

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Roland Jones

CIS

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Paula Buchanan

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

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Benu Amun Ra

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

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Afia Zakiya

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

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Esteban Ortiz

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

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Walt Walker

TYLin

shama perveen

Ceres

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Aria Harris

TYLin

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

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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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