Color Of Water

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

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Olga Cano

HUD

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Paula Buchanan

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

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Walt Walker

TYLin

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Roland Jones

CIS

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Benu Amun Ra

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

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Talia London

The Common Acre

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Aria Harris

TYLin

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Afia Zakiya

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

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Victor Galvan

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

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Esteban Ortiz

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

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

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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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