Color Of Water

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

Esteban Ortiz

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

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Olga Cano

HUD

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Aria Harris

TYLin

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Roland Jones

CIS

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Talia London

The Common Acre

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Victor Galvan

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

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Benu Amun Ra

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

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Afia Zakiya

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

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Paula Buchanan

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

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Analise Rivero

California Trout

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Andrea León-Grossmann

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Walt Walker

TYLin

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

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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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