Color Of Water

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

Roland Jones

CIS

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Esteban Ortiz

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

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Aria Harris

TYLin

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Talia London

The Common Acre

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Portia Shepherd

www.blackbeltwomenrising.org

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Paula Buchanan

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

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Benu Amun Ra

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

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Afia Zakiya

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

shama perveen

Ceres

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Jasmine Walker

IMPACT Community Action

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Victor Galvan

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

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Walt Walker

TYLin

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Olga Cano

HUD

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

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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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