Color Of Water

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

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Talia London

The Common Acre

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Walt Walker

TYLin

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Benu Amun Ra

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

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Esteban Ortiz

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

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Afia Zakiya

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

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Paula Buchanan

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

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Victor Galvan

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

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Olga Cano

HUD

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Roland Jones

CIS

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Aria Harris

TYLin

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

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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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