Color Of Water

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

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Talia London

The Common Acre

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Benu Amun Ra

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

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Victor Galvan

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

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Afia Zakiya

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

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Andrea León-Grossmann

Paula Buchanan

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

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Chakena Sims

NRDC

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Aria Harris

TYLin

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Olga Cano

HUD

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Roland Jones

CIS

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Walt Walker

TYLin

Esteban Ortiz

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

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

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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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