Color Of Water

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

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Roland Jones

CIS

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Andrea León-Grossmann

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Talia London

The Common Acre

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Victor Galvan

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

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Olga Cano

HUD

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Aria Harris

TYLin

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Esteban Ortiz

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

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Benu Amun Ra

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

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Paula Buchanan

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

Afia Zakiya

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

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Walt Walker

TYLin

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

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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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