Color Of Water

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

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Paula Buchanan

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

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Talia London

The Common Acre

Victor Galvan

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

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Roland Jones

CIS

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Esteban Ortiz

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

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Benu Amun Ra

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

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Olga Cano

HUD

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Afia Zakiya

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

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Walt Walker

TYLin

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Aria Harris

TYLin

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

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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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