Color Of Water

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

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Olga Cano

HUD

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Esteban Ortiz

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

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Walt Walker

TYLin

Roland Jones

CIS

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Aria Harris

TYLin

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Victor Galvan

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

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Paula Buchanan

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

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Afia Zakiya

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

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Talia London

The Common Acre

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Benu Amun Ra

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

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

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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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