Color Of Water

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

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Portia Shepherd

www.blackbeltwomenrising.org

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Olga Cano

HUD

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Talia London

The Common Acre

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Afia Zakiya

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

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Esteban Ortiz

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

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Victor Galvan

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

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Paula Buchanan

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

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Roland Jones

CIS

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Shama Perveen

CERES

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Walt Walker

TYLin

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Benu Amun Ra

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

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Jasmine Walker

IMPACT Community Action

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Aria Harris

TYLin

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

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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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