Color Of Water

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

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Afia Zakiya

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

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Talia London

The Common Acre

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Olga Cano

HUD

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Victor Galvan

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

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Roland Jones

CIS

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Paula Buchanan

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

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Benu Amun Ra

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

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Walt Walker

TYLin

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Andrea León-Grossmann

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Esteban Ortiz

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

Aria Harris

TYLin

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

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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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