Color Of Water

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

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Victor Galvan

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

Talia London

The Common Acre

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Walt Walker

TYLin

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Afia Zakiya

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

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Esteban Ortiz

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

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Jasmine Walker

IMPACT Community Action

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Benu Amun Ra

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

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Roland Jones

CIS

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Paula Buchanan

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

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Ayako Tischler

Moonshot Missions

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Shama Perveen

CERES

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Olga Cano

HUD

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Aria Harris

TYLin

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

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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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