Color Of Water

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

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Benu Amun Ra

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

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Olga Cano

HUD

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Walt Walker

TYLin

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Esteban Ortiz

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

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Talia London

The Common Acre

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Paula Buchanan

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

Roland Jones

CIS

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Afia Zakiya

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

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Victor Galvan

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

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Aria Harris

TYLin

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

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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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