Color Of Water

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

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Roland Jones

CIS

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Olga Cano

HUD

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Andrea León-Grossmann

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Paula Buchanan

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

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Afia Zakiya

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

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Aria Harris

TYLin

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Victor Galvan

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

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Talia London

The Common Acre

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Benu Amun Ra

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

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Esteban Ortiz

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

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Walt Walker

TYLin

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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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