Color Of Water

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

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Olga Cano

HUD

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Paula Buchanan

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

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Aria Harris

TYLin

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Victor Galvan

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

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Andrea León-Grossmann

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Benu Amun Ra

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

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Talia London

The Common Acre

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Roland Jones

CIS

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Walt Walker

TYLin

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Chakena Sims

NRDC

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Afia Zakiya

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

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Esteban Ortiz

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

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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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