Color Of Water
Elevating Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and other voices of color to change the narrative around water.
Daniel Cordalis
Native American Rights Fund
Ciara Horne
SBG Digital
Charles Cassagnol
Western Ecology, LLC
Oluwole (OJ) McFoy
Houston Public Works
Mallika Nocco
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Julian Gonzalez
Earthjustice
Crystal Sanders-Alvarado
Seaworthy
Dira Johanif
Charles River Climate Compact
Cyatharine Alias
Center for Neighborhood Technology
Ashwin Dhanasekar
Brown and Caldwell
Carlos Moran
Northeast Trees
Jaiden Willeto
Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop
Nicole Nelson
Equity Legal Services, Inc
Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George
Ferris Institute
Sri Vedachalam
Cisolutions
Val Schull
GreenLatinos
Elizabeth Ruiz
CA State Water Resources Control Board
Ruthie Redmond
UC Berkeley
Temiloluwa Akinyemi
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Mahtaab Bagherzadeh
NWF/Clean Water for All
Sonali Abraham
Pacific Institute
Ayako Tischler
Moonshot Missions
Nahal G. Ipakchi
BluePoint Planning
Felice Green
Milwaukee Water Commons
Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes
GreenLatinos
Nicole Chavas
Greenprint Partners
Brenda Coley
Milwaukee Water Commons
Veronica Garibay
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Olga Cano
HUD
Vinicius Taguchi
North Carolina State University
Jeremy Orr
Earthjustice
Maisah Khan
Regenerative Agriculture Foundation
Arohi Sharma
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Carolan Sonderegger
For Love of Water
Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Chauncey Foster
we.grow.eco
Quentin Stubbs
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Ean Tafoya
GreenLatinos
Beth Roach
Sierra Club
Shandin Pete
University of British Columbia
Heather Tanana
University of California, Irvine
Nikki Tulley
University of Arizona
Billie Li
Wright-Pierce
Khalid Osman
Stanford University
Pita Juarez
Comms Consultant
Jahan Taganova
City and County of Denver
Usman Mahmood
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Oday Salim
University of Michigan Law School
Charming Evelyn
OceanWell Water
maritza mendoza
Empower DC
Martin Griffin
Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District
Chakena Sims
NRDC
Crystal Davis
National Parks Conservation Association
Nataly Escobedo Garcia
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Victor Galvan
Denver Mayor's Office for Climate Action, Sustainability and Resilience
Emma Robbins
The Chapter House
Rhysea Agrawal
The Xylom
Damian Shapes Padilla
Spirit Rock Consulting
maritza mendoza
Empower DC
Kimbaya Carriere
Nuxalk First Nation
Esteban Ortiz
The Gorge Association of Aspirations/La Asociacion de Aspiraciones del Gorge
Monica Driggers
Massachusetts Rivers Alliance
Rob Larson
Grand Valley State University
Alondra Hernandez-Bose
WEAT
Roland Jones
CIS
Paula Buchanan
National Center for Domestic Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia Climate School
Jazmin Ricks
University of Pennsylvania
Joy Banner
The Descendants Project
Benu Amun Ra
S.A.C.R.Ed Eco-Center
Bridget Ray
Washington State Department of Commerce
Sandi Matsumoto
The Nature Conservancy
Diana Piña Yitbarek
NC Department of Environmental Quality
Tony Bridges
The Maryland General Assembly
Alai Reyes-Santos
University of Oregon
Emily Warren Armitano
Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Marc Oliver Quijano
Jacobs
Maria Elena Kennedy
Kennedy Communications, Inc
Priscila Alves
University of Maryland
Alyssa Senturk
California Water Data Consortium
Silvia R. Gonzalez
UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute
Fernando Ramirez
Bridges 2023 International
Angela Guyadeen
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Breanna Gonzalez
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Keiko Wilkins
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Thea Louis
MSC Industrial Supply Co.
Tanner Yess
Groundwork USA
Cheyanne Harris
Brown and Caldwell
Jo Banner
The Descendants Project
Cate Mingoya-LaFortune
Groundwork USA
Nathaniel I Kollie
University of California Santa Cruz
Arsum Pathak
National Wildlife Federation
Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
Xochitl Bervera
Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters
Nadine Robertson
Veolia North America
Frank Ruiz
The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz
Susana De Anda
Community Water Center
Alex Ortiz
Austin Water and Wastewater Commission
Ngodoo Atume
UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
Cathie Chavez-Morris
Equidad Group
Bleu Adams
IndigeHub
Jacob Bernal
American Rivers
Angela Mooney D’Arcy
Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples
Rachele Lopez
Justice Outside
Nusrat Molla
Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University
Aria Harris
TYLin
José M. Rodríguez-Flores
California State University, Monterey Bay
Newsha Ajami
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Olga Morales Pate
Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated
Talia London
The Common Acre
Alastair Bitsóí
Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President
Tanasia Swift
Billion Oyster Project
Ani Jayakaran
Washington State University
Sarah Traore
The University of Texas at Austin
Allen Townsend
World Wildlife Fund
Pedro Hernandez
GreenLatinos
Tiffany Sevilla
Greenprint Partners
Kedar Dabhadkar
Lam Research
Pablo Ortiz
Union of Concerned Scientists
André Sanchez
California Wilderness Coalition
Rene Henery
Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno
Chriscilia Cox
SUMA Consulting LLC
Joaquin Esquivel
California State Water Resources Control Board
Marccus Hendricks
University of Maryland - College Park
Gia Moreno
Hood Community Council
Gabe Vasquez
US Congress
Analise Rivero
California Trout
Julia Fay Bernal
Pueblo Action Alliance
Angela M Chalk
Healthy Community Resources Services
John Echohawk
Native American Rights Fund
Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz
Greenroots Institute
Jessica Dandridge-Smith
The Water Collaborative
Michael Méndez
UC Irvine
Pallavi Bharadwaj
SEG
Andrea León-Grossmann
Vote Solar
Harshini Ratnayaka
Save the Dunes
Sidney Opiyo
University of California, Santa Cruz
Dezaraye Bagalayos
Allensworth Progressive Association
Patricia Lindsay-Harvey
Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority
Adriana Renteria
State Water Board
Walt Walker
TYLin
Danielle Rivera
University of California Berkeley
Carlos Calderon
West Michigan Environmental Action Council
Sanjiv Sinha
Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.
Shama Perveen
CERES
Daniela Sherrill
ASU / AZ Water for All
Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš
Azul
Huda Alkaff
Wisconsin Green Muslims
Cindy Donis
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice
Nasim Pica
WSP in the U.S.
Afia Zakiya
Independent Africana Studies and EJ scholar-activist, currently Executive Director of Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation
Rhea Drozdenko
Connecticut River Conservancy
Nureen Faiza Anisha
Oregon State University
Ehab Meselhe
Tulane University
Kabir Thatte
The Vessel Collective
Briana Muñoz
Pacific Coast Carbon LLC
Jessica Thrasher
Colorado State University
Sapna Mulki
Environmental Policy Innovation Center
Parsa Saffarinia
University of California, Davis
Ed Marin
Louisville Water
Bre’Shaun Reddick
Alliance for the Great Lakes
Vicky Espinoza
CaliWaterAg
Andrian Lee
BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC
Jasmine Walker
IMPACT Community Action
Lenise Marrero
Brown and Caldwell
Lucero Sanchez
San Diego Coastkeeper
Cheyenne Holliday
Verde
Cate Caldwell
Illinois Environmental Council
Sydney Garcia
The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
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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.
Read the joint statement by Color of Water members on the importance of equity in the water world.
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