Color Of Water
Elevating Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and other voices of color to change the narrative around water.
Ruthie Redmond
UC Berkeley
Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš
Azul
Usman Mahmood
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Charles Cassagnol
Western Ecology, LLC
Sandi Matsumoto
The Nature Conservancy
Alai Reyes-Santos
Alaí Community Consulting
John Echohawk
Native American Rights Fund
Patricia Lindsay-Harvey
Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority
Aria Harris
TYLin
Olga Cano
HUD
Lucero Sanchez
San Diego Coastkeeper
Nureen Faiza Anisha
Oregon State University
Nusrat Molla
Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University
Sydney Garcia
The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Thea Louis
MSC Industrial Supply Co.
Ayako Tischler
Xylem
Susana De Anda
Community Water Center
Rob Larson
Grand Valley State University
Chakena Sims
NRDC
Nadine Robertson
Veolia North America
Newsha Ajami
Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
André Sanchez
California Wilderness Coalition
Joaquin Esquivel
California State Water Resources Control Board
Rachele Lopez
Justice Outside
Rhysea Agrawal
The Xylom
Cate Mingoya-LaFortune
Groundwork USA
Angela M Chalk
Healthy Community Resources Services
Nicole Chavas
Greenprint Partners
Rene Henery
Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno
Marccus Hendricks
University of Maryland - College Park
Diana Piña Yitbarek
NC Department of Environmental Quality
Julia Fay Bernal
Pueblo Action Alliance
Julian Gonzalez
Earthjustice
Ed Marin
Louisville Water
Moisés Moreno-Rivera
Trust for Public Land
Talia London
The Common Acre
Mallika Nocco
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Temiloluwa Akinyemi
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Olga Morales Pate
Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated
Daniel Cordalis
Native American Rights Fund
Dira Johanif
Charles River Climate Compact
Pita Juarez
Comms Consultant
Val Schull
GreenLatinos
Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
Shandin Pete
University of British Columbia
Tony Bridges
The Maryland General Assembly
Vicky Espinoza
CaliWaterAg
Frank Ruiz
The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz
Keiko Wilkins
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Emily Warren Armitano
Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Billie Li
Wright-Pierce
Sidney Opiyo
University of California, Santa Cruz
Fernando Ramirez
Bridges 2023 International
Vinicius Taguchi
North Carolina State University
Joy Banner
The Descendants Project
Esteban Ortiz
The Gorge Association of Aspirations/La Asociacion de Aspiraciones del Gorge
Jessica Thrasher
Colorado State University
Maisah Khan
Regenerative Agriculture Foundation
Xochitl Bervera
Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters
Oday Salim
University of Michigan Law School
Arohi Sharma
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Heather Tanana
University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Jacob Bernal
American Rivers
Angela Mooney D’Arcy
Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples
Walt Walker
TYLin
Dezaraye Bagalayos
Allensworth Progressive Association
Jahan Taganova
City and County of Denver
Jaiden Willeto
Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop
Kedar Dabhadkar
Lam Research
Beth Roach
Sierra Club
Khalid Osman
Stanford University
Ani Jayakaran
Washington State University
José M. Rodríguez-Flores
California State University, Monterey Bay
Rhea Drozdenko
Connecticut River Conservancy
Gia Moreno
Hood Community Council
Oluwole (OJ) McFoy
Houston Public Works
Kimbaya Carriere
Nuxalk First Nation
Jeremy Orr
Earthjustice
Nikki Tulley
University of Arizona
Direlle Calica
Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)
Carlos Calderon
West Michigan Environmental Action Council
Alyssa Senturk
California Water Data Consortium
Paula Buchanan
National Center for Domestic Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia Climate School
Analise Rivero
California Trout
Alastair Bitsóí
Near the Water Media & Communications Group
Cindy Donis
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice
Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes
GreenLatinos
Roland Jones
CIS
Danielle Rivera
University of California Berkeley
Maria Elena Kennedy
Kennedy Communications, Inc
Afia Zakiya
Independent Africana Studies and EJ scholar-activist, currently Executive Director of Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation
Ean Tafoya
GreenLatinos
Jahan Taganova
City and County of Denver
Carlos Moran
Northeast Trees
Kabir Thatte
The Vessel Collective
Veronica Garibay
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Cate Caldwell
Illinois Environmental Council
Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George
Ferris Institute
Andrian Lee
BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC
Briana Muñoz
Pacific Coast Carbon LLC
Ashwin Dhanasekar
Brown and Caldwell
Nataly Escobedo Garcia
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Quentin Stubbs
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Chakena Sims
NRDC
Felice Green
Milwaukee Water Commons
Victor Galvan
Denver Mayor's Office for Climate Action, Sustainability and Resilience
Silvia R. Gonzalez
UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute
Cheyanne Harris
Brown and Caldwell
Arsum Pathak
National Wildlife Federation
Portia Shepherd
Blackbelt Women Rising
Benu Amun Ra
S.A.C.R.Ed Eco-Center
Pablo Ortiz
Union of Concerned Scientists
Adriana Renteria
State Water Board
Emma Robbins
The Chapter House
Nicole Nelson
Equity Legal Services, Inc
Andrea León-Grossmann
Vote Solar
Jazmin Ricks
University of Pennsylvania
Mahtaab Bagherzadeh
NWF/Clean Water for All
Parsa Saffarinia
University of California, Davis
Priscila Alves
University of Maryland
Nathaniel I Kollie
University of California Santa Cruz
Daniela Sherrill
ASU / AZ Water for All
Jessica Dandridge-Smith
The Water Collaborative
Pedro Hernandez
GreenLatinos
Harshini Ratnayaka
Save the Dunes
Maritza Mendoza
Empower DC
Shama Perveen
Ceres
Elizabeth Ruiz
CA State Water Resources Control Board
Huda Alkaff
Wisconsin Green Muslims
Alex Ortiz
Austin Water and Wastewater Commission
Jasmine Walker
Ohio Environmental Council
Jo Banner
The Descendants Project
Bridget Ray
Washington State Department of Commerce
Nasim Pica
WSP in the U.S.
Sarah Traore
The University of Texas at Austin
Bleu Adams
IndigeHub
Michael Méndez
UC Irvine
Pallavi Bharadwaj
SEG
Allen Townsend
World Wildlife Fund
Chriscilia Cox
SUMA Consulting LLC
Angela Guyadeen
NRDC
Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Monica Driggers
Massachusetts Rivers Alliance
Alondra Hernandez-Bose
WEAT
Nahal G. Ipakchi
BluePoint Planning
Crystal Sanders-Alvarado
Seaworthy
Sonali Abraham
Pacific Institute
Lenise Marrero
Brown and Caldwell
Tanasia Swift
Billion Oyster Project
Breanna Gonzalez
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Carolan Sonderegger
For Love of Water
Brenda Coley
Milwaukee Water Commons
Charming Evelyn
OceanWell Water
Bre’Shaun Reddick
Alliance for the Great Lakes
Sri Vedachalam
Cisolutions
Martin Griffin
Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District
Chauncey Foster
we.grow.eco
Sanjiv Sinha
Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.
Damian Shapes Padilla
Spirit Rock Consulting
Cyatharine Alias
Center for Neighborhood Technology
Tanner Yess
Groundwork USA
Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz
Greenroots Institute
Ciara Horne
SBG Digital
Ngodoo Atume
UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
Cathie Chavez-Morris
Equidad Group
Crystal Davis
National Parks Conservation Association
Ehab Meselhe
Tulane University
Tiffany Sevilla
Greenprint Partners
Nieves Vazquez
Water For People
Sapna Mulki
Environmental Policy Innovation Center
Marc Oliver Quijano
Jacobs
Cheyenne Holliday
Verde
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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.
Read the joint statement by Color of Water members on the importance of equity in the water world.
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AOC holds jar of brown water from next to Meta’s Georgia data center at EPA hearing: Residents ‘rely on bottled water to drink and prepare meals’ – AOL
Neighbors of a massive Meta data center can’t drink their water, and their water bills are set to skyrocket. [from AOL.com]

Environmental justice raised over data centers targeting rural NM – KRWG Public Media
GreenLatinos believes states should approach regulation of artificial intelligence data centers from a mindset of community protection and adopt a high bar for regulation. [from

'Bringing these worlds together' – Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
[from Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability]