Color Of Water

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

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Talia London

The Common Acre

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Olga Cano

HUD

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Aria Harris

TYLin

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Afia Zakiya

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

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Walt Walker

TYLin

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Esteban Ortiz

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

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Paula Buchanan

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

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Roland Jones

CIS

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

shama perveen

Ceres

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Benu Amun Ra

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

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Victor Galvan

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

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Jasmine Walker

IMPACT Community Action

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

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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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