Color Of Water

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

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Benu Amun Ra

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

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Olga Cano

HUD

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Aria Harris

TYLin

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Jasmine Walker

IMPACT Community Action

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Roland Jones

CIS

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Paula Buchanan

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

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Victor Galvan

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

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Esteban Ortiz

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

Afia Zakiya

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

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Walt Walker

TYLin

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Portia Shepherd

www.blackbeltwomenrising.org

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

shama perveen

Ceres

Talia London

The Common Acre

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

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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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