Color Of Water

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

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Andrea León-Grossmann

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Aria Harris

TYLin

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Olga Cano

HUD

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Paula Buchanan

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

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Afia Zakiya

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

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Esteban Ortiz

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

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Talia London

The Common Acre

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Roland Jones

CIS

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Benu Amun Ra

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

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Walt Walker

TYLin

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Victor Galvan

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

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

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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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