Color Of Water

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

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Talia London

The Common Acre

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Paula Buchanan

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

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Afia Zakiya

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

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Victor Galvan

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

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Aria Harris

TYLin

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Roland Jones

CIS

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Benu Amun Ra

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

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Olga Cano

HUD

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Walt Walker

TYLin

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Esteban Ortiz

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

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

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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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