Color Of Water

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

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Walt Walker

TYLin

Olga Cano

HUD

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Esteban Ortiz

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

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Victor Galvan

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

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Aria Harris

TYLin

Benu Amun Ra

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

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Roland Jones

CIS

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Paula Buchanan

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

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Afia Zakiya

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

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Guadalupe F

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Talia London

The Common Acre

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

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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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