Color Of Water

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

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Roland Jones

CIS

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Jasmine Walker

IMPACT Community Action

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Olga Cano

HUD

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Walt Walker

TYLin

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Afia Zakiya

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

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Shama Perveen

CERES

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Esteban Ortiz

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

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Aria Harris

TYLin

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Benu Amun Ra

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

Portia Shepherd

www.blackbeltwomenrising.org

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Talia London

The Common Acre

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Victor Galvan

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

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Paula Buchanan

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

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

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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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