Color Of Water

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

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Victor Galvan

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

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Paula Buchanan

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

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Talia London

The Common Acre

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Esteban Ortiz

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

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Walt Walker

TYLin

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Direlle Calica

KA - ATNI Changing Currents

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Aria Harris

TYLin

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Roland Jones

CIS

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Benu Amun Ra

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

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Afia Zakiya

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

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Olga Cano

HUD

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

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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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