Color Of Water

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

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Victor Galvan

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

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Talia London

The Common Acre

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Olga Cano

HUD

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Roland Jones

CIS

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Benu Amun Ra

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

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Paula Buchanan

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

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Aria Harris

TYLin

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Afia Zakiya

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

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Walt Walker

TYLin

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Esteban Ortiz

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

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

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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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