Color Of Water

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

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Andrea León-Grossmann

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Afia Zakiya

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

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Benu Amun Ra

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

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Paula Buchanan

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

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Olga Cano

HUD

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Roland Jones

CIS

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Walt Walker

TYLin

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Talia London

The Common Acre

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Aria Harris

TYLin

Victor Galvan

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

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Esteban Ortiz

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

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

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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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