Color Of Water

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

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Aria Harris

TYLin

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Roland Jones

CIS

Paula Buchanan

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

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Afia Zakiya

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

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Olga Cano

HUD

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Victor Galvan

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

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Talia London

The Common Acre

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Walt Walker

TYLin

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Esteban Ortiz

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

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Benu Amun Ra

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

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

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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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