Color Of Water

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

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Benu Amun Ra

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

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Talia London

The Common Acre

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Olga Cano

HUD

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Roland Jones

CIS

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Esteban Ortiz

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

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Afia Zakiya

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

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Chakena Sims

NRDC

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Paula Buchanan

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

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Victor Galvan

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

Aria Harris

TYLin

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Walt Walker

TYLin

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Emily Warren Armitano

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.


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