Color Of Water

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

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Andrea León-Grossmann

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Paula Buchanan

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

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Esteban Ortiz

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

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Roland Jones

CIS

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Walt Walker

TYLin

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Victor Galvan

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

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Talia London

The Common Acre

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Aria Harris

TYLin

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Afia Zakiya

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

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Benu Amun Ra

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

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Olga Cano

HUD

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

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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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