Color Of Water

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

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Victor Galvan

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

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Benu Amun Ra

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

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Esteban Ortiz

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

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Roland Jones

CIS

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Talia London

The Common Acre

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Aria Harris

TYLin

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Paula Buchanan

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

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Afia Zakiya

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

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Olga Cano

HUD

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Walt Walker

TYLin

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

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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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