Color Of Water

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

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Aria Harris

TYLin

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Walt Walker

TYLin

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Olga Cano

HUD

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Afia Zakiya

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

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Victor Galvan

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

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Talia London

The Common Acre

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Esteban Ortiz

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

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Benu Amun Ra

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

Roland Jones

CIS

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Paula Buchanan

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

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Nieves Vazquez

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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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