Color Of Water

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

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Roland Jones

CIS

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Paula Buchanan

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

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Olga Cano

HUD

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Afia Zakiya

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

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Aria Harris

TYLin

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Talia London

The Common Acre

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Esteban Ortiz

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

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Benu Amun Ra

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

Andrea León-Grossmann

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Victor Galvan

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

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Walt Walker

TYLin

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

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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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