Color Of Water

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

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Talia London

The Common Acre

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Afia Zakiya

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

Paula Buchanan

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

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Victor Galvan

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

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Roland Jones

CIS

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Walt Walker

TYLin

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Esteban Ortiz

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

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Aria Harris

TYLin

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Andrea León-Grossmann

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Olga Cano

HUD

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Benu Amun Ra

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

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Nieves Vazquez

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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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