Color Of Water

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

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Victor Galvan

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

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Paula Buchanan

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

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Aria Harris

TYLin

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Talia London

The Common Acre

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Afia Zakiya

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

Walt Walker

TYLin

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Olga Cano

HUD

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Benu Amun Ra

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

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Esteban Ortiz

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

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Roland Jones

CIS

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

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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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