Color Of Water

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

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Talia London

The Common Acre

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Aria Harris

TYLin

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Olga Cano

HUD

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Victor Galvan

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

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Paula Buchanan

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

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Esteban Ortiz

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

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Roland Jones

CIS

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Benu Amun Ra

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

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Afia Zakiya

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

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Walt Walker

TYLin

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

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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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