Color Of Water

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

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Benu Amun Ra

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

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Walt Walker

TYLin

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Victor Galvan

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

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Roland Jones

CIS

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Talia London

The Common Acre

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Andrea León-Grossmann

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Afia Zakiya

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

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Olga Cano

HUD

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Aria Harris

TYLin

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Esteban Ortiz

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

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Paula Buchanan

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

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

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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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