Color Of Water

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

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Afia Zakiya

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

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Benu Amun Ra

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

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Paula Buchanan

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

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Esteban Ortiz

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

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Walt Walker

TYLin

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Roland Jones

CIS

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Andrea León-Grossmann

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Aria Harris

TYLin

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Talia London

The Common Acre

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Olga Cano

HUD

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Victor Galvan

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

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

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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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