Color Of Water

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

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Olga Cano

HUD

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Talia London

The Common Acre

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Aria Harris

TYLin

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Victor Galvan

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

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Esteban Ortiz

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

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Afia Zakiya

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

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Paula Buchanan

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

Roland Jones

CIS

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Benu Amun Ra

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

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Walt Walker

TYLin

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State 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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