Color Of Water

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

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Afia Zakiya

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

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Roland Jones

CIS

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Walt Walker

TYLin

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Paula Buchanan

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

Olga Cano

HUD

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Benu Amun Ra

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

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Victor Galvan

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

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Talia London

The Common Acre

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Andrea León-Grossmann

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Aria Harris

TYLin

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Esteban Ortiz

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

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

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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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