Color Of Water

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

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Aria Harris

TYLin

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Roland Jones

CIS

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Victor Galvan

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

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Chakena Sims

NRDC

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Benu Amun Ra

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

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Guadalupe F

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Paula Buchanan

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

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Esteban Ortiz

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

Afia Zakiya

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

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Olga Cano

HUD

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Walt Walker

TYLin

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Talia London

The Common Acre

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

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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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