Color Of Water

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

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Esteban Ortiz

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

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Walt Walker

TYLin

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Aria Harris

TYLin

Talia London

The Common Acre

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Benu Amun Ra

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

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Victor Galvan

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

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Olga Cano

HUD

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Paula Buchanan

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

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Roland Jones

CIS

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Afia Zakiya

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

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

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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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