Color Of Water

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

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Benu Amun Ra

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

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Afia Zakiya

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

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Aria Harris

TYLin

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Esteban Ortiz

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

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Roland Jones

CIS

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Walt Walker

TYLin

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Talia London

The Common Acre

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Andrea León-Grossmann

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Paula Buchanan

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

Victor Galvan

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

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Olga Cano

HUD

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

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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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