Color Of Water

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

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Paula Buchanan

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

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Roland Jones

CIS

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Esteban Ortiz

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

Benu Amun Ra

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

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Andrea León-Grossmann

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Walt Walker

TYLin

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Aria Harris

TYLin

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Olga Cano

HUD

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Afia Zakiya

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

Victor Galvan

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

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Talia London

The Common Acre

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

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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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