Color Of Water

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

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Walt Walker

TYLin

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Moises Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Victor Galvan

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

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Olga Cano

HUD

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Benu Amun Ra

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

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Afia Zakiya

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

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Talia London

The Common Acre

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Aria Harris

TYLin

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Esteban Ortiz

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

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Paula Buchanan

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

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Roland Jones

CIS

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

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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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