Color Of Water

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

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Paula Buchanan

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

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Aria Harris

TYLin

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Victor Galvan

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

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Esteban Ortiz

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

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Walt Walker

TYLin

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Afia Zakiya

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

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Talia London

The Common Acre

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Roland Jones

CIS

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Olga Cano

HUD

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Benu Amun Ra

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

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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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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