Color Of Water

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

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Direlle Calica

KA - ATNI Changing Currents

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Benu Amun Ra

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

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Roland Jones

CIS

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Walt Walker

TYLin

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Aria Harris

TYLin

Afia Zakiya

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

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Talia London

The Common Acre

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Paula Buchanan

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

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Victor Galvan

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

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Esteban Ortiz

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

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Olga Cano

HUD

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Carolan Sonderegger

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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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