Color Of Water

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

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Afia Zakiya

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

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Victor Galvan

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

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Talia London

The Common Acre

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Olga Cano

HUD

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Paula Buchanan

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

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Walt Walker

TYLin

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Esteban Ortiz

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

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Benu Amun Ra

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

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Aria Harris

TYLin

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Roland Jones

CIS

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

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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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