Color Of Water

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

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Aria Harris

TYLin

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Esteban Ortiz

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

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Talia London

The Common Acre

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Olga Cano

HUD

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Paula Buchanan

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

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Victor Galvan

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

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Roland Jones

CIS

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Walt Walker

TYLin

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Benu Amun Ra

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

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Afia Zakiya

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

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

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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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