Color Of Water

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

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Benu Amun Ra

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

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Talia London

The Common Acre

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Esteban Ortiz

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

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Walt Walker

TYLin

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Paula Buchanan

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

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Aria Harris

TYLin

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Victor Galvan

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

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Moises Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Roland Jones

CIS

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Olga Cano

HUD

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Afia Zakiya

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

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Analise Rivero

California Trout

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

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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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