Color Of Water

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

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Olga Cano

HUD

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Paula Buchanan

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

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Afia Zakiya

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

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Victor Galvan

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

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Talia London

The Common Acre

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Walt Walker

TYLin

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Benu Amun Ra

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

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Roland Jones

CIS

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Guadalupe F

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Aria Harris

TYLin

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Esteban Ortiz

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

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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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