Color Of Water

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

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Shama Perveen

CERES

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Frank Ruiz

Audubon California

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Vidya Balasubramanyam

Coastal States Organization

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Talia London

The Common Acre

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Priscila B R Alves

University of Maryland

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Roland Jones

CIS

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Paula Buchanan

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

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Esteban Ortiz

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

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Alexis Roig

United Nations University

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Afia Zakiya

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

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Chakena Perry

NRDC

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Jorge Roman-Romero

Bassman, Mitchell, Alfano & Leiter Chtd.

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Jeremiah Muhammad

Blacks In Green

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Kaiser Ahad

Naveen Adusumilli

Louisiana State University

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Analise Rivero

California Trout

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

Environmental Defense Fund

Victor Galvan

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

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Walt Walker

TYLin

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

martin griffin

madison metropolitan sewerage district

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Olga Cano

HUD

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Emma Robbins

Planet Woman

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

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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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