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

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Aria Harris

TYLin

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Paula Buchanan

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

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Victor Galvan

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

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Talia London

The Common Acre

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Roland Jones

CIS

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Walt Walker

TYLin

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Benu Amun Ra

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

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Afia Zakiya

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

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Olga Cano

HUD

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Esteban Ortiz

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

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

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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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