Color Of Water

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

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Priscila B R Alves

University of Maryland

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

shama perveen

CERES

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Nahal Ghoghaie

Kearns & West

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Rachele Lopez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Nasim Pica

Antea Group USA

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Services

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Kristi Pullen Fedinick

The George Washington University

Afia Zakiya

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

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Jared Romero

Walton Family Foundation

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Paula Buchanan

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

martin griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Emily Raquel Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Alex Ortiz

Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Anita Shervington

BLAST Fest

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado Water Center

Alondra Hernandez

WEAT

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Vicky Espinoza

The Nature Conservancy

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

Environmental Defense Fund

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium/University of California Santa Cruz

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Marleen Villanueva

Department of Women and Gender Studies at Texas Christian University

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Ruthie Redmond

Trimtab Sustainable Waters

Chakena Perry

NRDC

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Emma Robbins

Planet Woman

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Roland Jones

CIS

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Elizabeth Ruiz

Salmon and Steelhead Monitoring Program

Alastair Bitsóí

Inside Climate News

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos / CO Dept. of Public Health and Env.

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Olga Cano

Environmental Protection Agency

Tanner Yess

Groundwork Ohio River Valley

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Maritza Mendoza

GreenLatinos

Frank Ruiz

Audubon California

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Naveen Adusumilli

Louisiana State University

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Jorge Roman-Romero

Georgetown University Law Center

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Vidya Balasubramanyam

Coastal States Organization

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Ngodoo Atume

UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Jared Romero

Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Michael Mendez

UC Irvine

Victor Galvan

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

Esteban Ortiz

Columbia Riverkeeper

Jeremiah Muhammad

Blacks In Green

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Jahan Taganova

One Young World Peace Ambassador

Billie Li

Massachusetts Department of Transportation

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Fernando Ramirez

Hydraloop Inc.

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Jacob Bernal

Washington State University

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Kimbaya Carriere

First Nations Fisheries Council- Water For Fish

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Nadine Robertson

Manchac Management Services and Consulting Group

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Thea Louis

Duke Energy Corporation

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

John Echohawk

Native American Rights 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.

Read the joint statement by Color of Water members on the launch of the Color of Water directory and the importance of equity and inclusion in the water world. 

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