Color Of Water

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

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Aria Harris

TYLin

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Afia Zakiya

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

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Victor Galvan

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

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Walt Walker

TYLin

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Roland Jones

CIS

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Paula Buchanan

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

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Olga Cano

HUD

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Esteban Ortiz

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

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Benu Amun Ra

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

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Talia London

The Common Acre

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

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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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