Color Of Water

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

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Talia London

The Common Acre

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Walt Walker

TYLin

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Roland Jones

CIS

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Benu Amun Ra

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

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Afia Zakiya

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

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Victor Galvan

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

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Esteban Ortiz

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

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Olga Cano

HUD

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Aria Harris

TYLin

Paula Buchanan

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

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

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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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