Color Of Water

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

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

shama perveen

Ceres

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Aria Harris

TYLin

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Afia Zakiya

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

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Jasmine Walker

IMPACT Community Action

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Talia London

The Common Acre

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Paula Buchanan

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

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Esteban Ortiz

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

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Walt Walker

TYLin

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Olga Cano

HUD

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Benu Amun Ra

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

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Roland Jones

CIS

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Victor Galvan

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

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

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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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