Color Of Water

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

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Roland Jones

CIS

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Esteban Ortiz

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

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Andrea León-Grossmann

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Afia Zakiya

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

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Paula Buchanan

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

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Benu Amun Ra

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

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Talia London

The Common Acre

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Aria Harris

TYLin

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Victor Galvan

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

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Olga Cano

HUD

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Walt Walker

TYLin

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

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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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