Color Of Water

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

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Talia London

The Common Acre

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Victor Galvan

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

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Esteban Ortiz

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

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Jasmine Walker

IMPACT Community Action

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Aria Harris

TYLin

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Walt Walker

TYLin

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Shama Perveen

CERES

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Roland Jones

CIS

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Paula Buchanan

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

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Olga Cano

HUD

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Benu Amun Ra

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

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Afia Zakiya

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

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

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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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