Color Of Water

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

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Jacob Bernal

Washington State University

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Michael Mendez

UC Irvine

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Services

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Esteban Ortiz

Gorge Aspirations/ Aspiraciones del Gorge

Vidya Balasubramanyam

Coastal States Organization

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Priscila B R Alves

University of Maryland

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

Environmental Defense Fund

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Afia Zakiya

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

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Jeremiah Muhammad

Blacks In Green

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Paula Buchanan

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

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Victor Galvan

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

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Pallavi Bharadwaj

Society of Exploration Geophysicists

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Jorge Roman-Romero

Bassman, Mitchell, Alfano & Leiter Chtd.

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Talia London

The Common Acre

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Frank Ruiz

Audubon California

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Naveen Adusumilli

Louisiana State University

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Shama Perveen

CERES

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Emma Robbins

Planet Woman

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium/University of California Santa Cruz

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Olga Cano

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Walt Walker

TYLin

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Chakena Perry

NRDC

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Roland Jones

CIS

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

emily warren armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

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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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