Color Of Water

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

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Aria Harris

TYLin

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Walt Walker

TYLin

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Esteban Ortiz

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

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Afia Zakiya

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

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Talia London

The Common Acre

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Paula Buchanan

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

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Andrea León-Grossmann

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Roland Jones

CIS

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Olga Cano

HUD

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Hayat Rasul

LA County

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Benu Amun Ra

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

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Victor Galvan

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

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

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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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