Color Of Water

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

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Benu Amun Ra

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

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Paula Buchanan

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

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Roland Jones

CIS

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Andrea León-Grossmann

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Walt Walker

TYLin

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Talia London

The Common Acre

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Aria Harris

TYLin

Esteban Ortiz

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

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Victor Galvan

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

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Afia Zakiya

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

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Olga Cano

HUD

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

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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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