Color Of Water
Elevating Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and other voices of color to change the narrative around water.
Nikki Tulley
University of Arizona
Ciara Horne
SBG Digital
Chakena Sims
NRDC
Cindy Donis
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice
Felice Green
Milwaukee Water Commons
Daniela Sherrill
ASU / AZ Water for All
Briana Muñoz
Pacific Coast Carbon LLC
Gia Moreno
Hood Community Council
Martin Griffin
Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District
Ashwin Dhanasekar
Brown and Caldwell
Xochitl Bervera
Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters
Alex Ortiz
Austin Water and Wastewater Commission
Cate Mingoya-LaFortune
Groundwork USA
Jazmin Ricks
University of Pennsylvania
Ean Tafoya
GreenLatinos
Tiffany Sevilla
Greenprint Partners
Tony Bridges
The Maryland General Assembly
Bridget Ray
Washington State Department of Commerce
Alai Reyes-Santos
Alaí Community Consulting
Lucero Sanchez
San Diego Coastkeeper
Mahtaab Bagherzadeh
NWF/Clean Water for All
Cathie Chavez-Morris
Equidad Group
Walt Walker
TYLin
Jahan Taganova
City and County of Denver
Nahal G. Ipakchi
BluePoint Planning
Nadine Robertson
Veolia North America
Angela Guyadeen
NRDC
Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
Newsha Ajami
Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
Cheyenne Holliday
Verde
Jo Banner
The Descendants Project
Chriscilia Cox
SUMA Consulting LLC
Brenda Coley
Milwaukee Water Commons
Priscila Alves
University of Maryland
Portia Shepherd
Blackbelt Women Rising
Marccus Hendricks
University of Maryland - College Park
Nicole Chavas
Greenprint Partners
Lenise Marrero
Brown and Caldwell
José M. Rodríguez-Flores
California State University, Monterey Bay
Sri Vedachalam
Cisolutions
Charles Cassagnol
Western Ecology, LLC
Nusrat Molla
Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University
Nicole Nelson
Equity Legal Services, Inc
Vinicius Taguchi
North Carolina State University
Tanner Yess
Groundwork USA
Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Julia Fay Bernal
Pueblo Action Alliance
Maisah Khan
Regenerative Agriculture Foundation
Breanna Gonzalez
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Esteban Ortiz
The Gorge Association of Aspirations/La Asociacion de Aspiraciones del Gorge
Ani Jayakaran
Washington State University
Nureen Faiza Anisha
Oregon State University
Veronica Garibay
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Sonali Abraham
Pacific Institute
Diana Piña Yitbarek
NC Department of Environmental Quality
Paula Buchanan
National Center for Domestic Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia Climate School
André Sanchez
California Wilderness Coalition
Val Schull
GreenLatinos
Andrea León-Grossmann
Vote Solar
Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz
Greenroots Institute
Jaiden Willeto
Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop
Rachele Lopez
Justice Outside
Marc Oliver Quijano
Jacobs
Damian Shapes Padilla
Spirit Rock Consulting
Thea Louis
MSC Industrial Supply Co.
Julian Gonzalez
Earthjustice
Ed Marin
Louisville Water
Cyatharine Alias
Center for Neighborhood Technology
Sydney Garcia
The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Silvia R. Gonzalez
UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute
Dira Johanif
Charles River Climate Compact
Beth Roach
Sierra Club
Tanasia Swift
Billion Oyster Project
Alastair Bitsóí
Near the Water Media & Communications Group
Roland Jones
CIS
Khalid Osman
Stanford University
Crystal Davis
National Parks Conservation Association
Bleu Adams
IndigeHub
Pita Juarez
Comms Consultant
Direlle Calica
Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)
Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes
GreenLatinos
Moisés Moreno-Rivera
Trust for Public Land
Sarah Traore
The University of Texas at Austin
Kimbaya Carriere
Nuxalk First Nation
Nieves Vazquez
Water For People
Frank Ruiz
The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz
Nasim Pica
WSP in the U.S.
Victor Galvan
Denver Mayor's Office for Climate Action, Sustainability and Resilience
Heather Tanana
University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Kabir Thatte
The Vessel Collective
Chauncey Foster
we.grow.eco
Harshini Ratnayaka
Save the Dunes
Alondra Hernandez-Bose
WEAT
Arohi Sharma
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Kedar Dabhadkar
Lam Research
John Echohawk
Native American Rights Fund
Elizabeth Ruiz
CA State Water Resources Control Board
Joy Banner
The Descendants Project
Rhea Drozdenko
Connecticut River Conservancy
Vicky Espinoza
CaliWaterAg
Keiko Wilkins
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Temiloluwa Akinyemi
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš
Azul
Jasmine Walker
Ohio Environmental Council
Alyssa Senturk
California Water Data Consortium
Monica Driggers
Massachusetts Rivers Alliance
Usman Mahmood
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Maria Elena Kennedy
Kennedy Communications, Inc
Cheyanne Harris
Brown and Caldwell
Oluwole (OJ) McFoy
Houston Public Works
Oday Salim
University of Michigan Law School
Danielle Rivera
University of California Berkeley
Jessica Dandridge-Smith
The Water Collaborative
Maritza Mendoza
Empower DC
Crystal Sanders-Alvarado
Seaworthy
Pedro Hernandez
GreenLatinos
Bre’Shaun Reddick
Alliance for the Great Lakes
Parsa Saffarinia
University of California, Davis
Carlos Calderon
West Michigan Environmental Action Council
Cate Caldwell
Illinois Environmental Council
Aria Harris
TYLin
Ngodoo Atume
UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
Olga Morales
Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated
Sanjiv Sinha
Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.
Mallika Nocco
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Emma Robbins
The Chapter House
Jacob Bernal
American Rivers
Michael Méndez
UC Irvine
Shandin Pete
University of British Columbia
Quentin Stubbs
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Shama Perveen
Ceres
Nataly Escobedo Garcia
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Allen Townsend
World Wildlife Fund
Jeremy Orr
Earthjustice
Benu Amun Ra
S.A.C.R.Ed Eco-Center
Analise Rivero
California Trout
Jahan Taganova
City and County of Denver
Rob Larson
Grand Valley State University
Ehab Meselhe
Tulane University
Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George
Ferris Institute
Dezaraye Bagalayos
Allensworth Progressive Association
Sidney Opiyo
University of California, Santa Cruz
Arsum Pathak
National Wildlife Federation
Guadalupe Fernandez
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Nathaniel I Kollie
University of California Santa Cruz
Adriana Renteria
State Water Board
Angela M Chalk
Healthy Community Resources Services
Billie Li
Wright-Pierce
Talia London
The Common Acre
Rhysea Agrawal
The Xylom
Huda Alkaff
Wisconsin Green Muslims
Fernando Ramirez
Bridges 2023 International
Angela Mooney D’Arcy
Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples
Carolan Sonderegger
For Love of Water
Emily Warren Armitano
Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Chakena Sims
NRDC
Ayako Tischler
Xylem
Pallavi Bharadwaj
SEG
Patricia Lindsay-Harvey
Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority
Sandi Matsumoto
The Nature Conservancy
Olga Cano
HUD
Rene Henery
Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno
Afia Zakiya
Independent Africana Studies and EJ scholar-activist, currently Executive Director of Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation
Joaquin Esquivel
California State Water Resources Control Board
Andrian Lee
BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC
Susana De Anda
Community Water Center
Ruthie Redmond
UC Berkeley
Charming Evelyn
OceanWell Water
Sapna Mulki
Environmental Policy Innovation Center
Carlos Moran
Northeast Trees
Jessica Thrasher
Colorado State University
Pablo Ortiz
Union of Concerned Scientists
Daniel Cordalis
Native American Rights Fund
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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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California’s push to limit groundwater pumping could leave small farmers in the dust – Los Angeles Times
According to a new report, California groundwater regulations threaten to put many small farms out of business. [from Los Angeles Times]

A simple idea to bring clean drinking water to U.S. homes at a lower cost – Sustainability Accelerator
[from Sustainability Accelerator]

New federal law could bring running water to tribal homes, but states have concerns – NPR
More than 10,000 homes on Southwestern Indian reservations lack running water. This despite tribes substantial water rights. A new solution is being held up as