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.
Read the joint statement by Color of Water members on the importance of equity in the water world.
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