Color Of Water

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

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Roland Jones

CIS

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Talia London

The Common Acre

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Olga Cano

HUD

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Afia Zakiya

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

Benu Amun Ra

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

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Walt Walker

TYLin

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Esteban Ortiz

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

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Paula Buchanan

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

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Aria Harris

TYLin

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Victor Galvan

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

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

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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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