Color Of Water

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

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Afia Zakiya

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

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Benu Amun Ra

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

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Walt Walker

TYLin

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Aria Harris

TYLin

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Guadalupe F

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Paula Buchanan

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

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Esteban Ortiz

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

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Olga Cano

HUD

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Roland Jones

CIS

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Talia London

The Common Acre

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Victor Galvan

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

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

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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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