Color Of Water
Elevating Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and other voices of color to change the narrative around water.
Dira Johanif
Charles River Climate Compact
Aria Harris
TYLin
Pedro Hernandez
GreenLatinos
Daniel Cordalis
Native American Rights Fund
Olga Cano
HUD
Jo Banner
The Descendants Project
Ean Tafoya
GreenLatinos
Angela M Chalk
Healthy Community Resources Services
Bleu Adams
IndigeHub
Pita Juarez
Comms Consultant
Alondra Hernandez-Bose
WEAT
Keiko Wilkins
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Joy Banner
The Descendants Project
Sidney Opiyo
University of California, Santa Cruz
Ciara Horne
SBG Digital
Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš
Azul
Ehab Meselhe
Tulane University
Ani Jayakaran
Washington State University
Rhea Drozdenko
Connecticut River Conservancy
Victor Galvan
Denver Mayor's Office for Climate Action, Sustainability and Resilience
Brenda Coley
Milwaukee Water Commons
Nikki Tulley
University of Arizona
Sarah Traore
The University of Texas at Austin
Nahal G. Ipakchi
BluePoint Planning
Silvia R. Gonzalez
UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute
Cheyanne Harris
Brown and Caldwell
Kabir Thatte
The Vessel Collective
Ayako Tischler
Xylem
Pablo Ortiz
Union of Concerned Scientists
Maritza Mendoza
Empower DC
Bre’Shaun Reddick
Alliance for the Great Lakes
Jessica Thrasher
Colorado State University
Maria Elena Kennedy
Kennedy Communications, Inc
Direlle Calica
Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)
Martin Griffin
Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District
Breanna Gonzalez
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Carlos Moran
Northeast Trees
Khalid Osman
Stanford University
Olga Morales Pate
Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated
Felice Green
Milwaukee Water Commons
Jacob Bernal
American Rivers
Vinicius Taguchi
North Carolina State University
Julian Gonzalez
Earthjustice
Usman Mahmood
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz
Greenroots Institute
Gia Moreno
Hood Community Council
Benu Amun Ra
S.A.C.R.Ed Eco-Center
Cheyenne Holliday
Verde
Pallavi Bharadwaj
SEG
Afia Zakiya
Independent Africana Studies and EJ scholar-activist, currently Executive Director of Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation
Cyatharine Alias
Center for Neighborhood Technology
Maisah Khan
Regenerative Agriculture Foundation
Patricia Lindsay-Harvey
Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority
Charming Evelyn
OceanWell Water
Veronica Garibay
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Nusrat Molla
Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University
Nataly Escobedo Garcia
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Nureen Faiza Anisha
Oregon State University
Bridget Ray
Washington State Department of Commerce
Jeremy Orr
Earthjustice
Crystal Davis
National Parks Conservation Association
Walt Walker
TYLin
Shama Perveen
Ceres
Crystal Sanders-Alvarado
Seaworthy
Sydney Garcia
The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Daniela Sherrill
ASU / AZ Water for All
Chakena Sims
NRDC
Temiloluwa Akinyemi
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Alex Ortiz
Austin Water and Wastewater Commission
Vicky Espinoza
CaliWaterAg
Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Parsa Saffarinia
University of California, Davis
Carlos Calderon
West Michigan Environmental Action Council
Quentin Stubbs
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Arohi Sharma
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Huda Alkaff
Wisconsin Green Muslims
José M. Rodríguez-Flores
California State University, Monterey Bay
Newsha Ajami
Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
Andrea León-Grossmann
Vote Solar
Tiffany Sevilla
Greenprint Partners
Jahan Taganova
City and County of Denver
Analise Rivero
California Trout
Cathie Chavez-Morris
Equidad Group
Ed Marin
Louisville Water
Rob Larson
Grand Valley State University
Oluwole (OJ) McFoy
Houston Public Works
Kedar Dabhadkar
Lam Research
Monica Driggers
Massachusetts Rivers Alliance
Briana Muñoz
Pacific Coast Carbon LLC
Angela Guyadeen
NRDC
Paula Buchanan
National Center for Domestic Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia Climate School
Mallika Nocco
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jessica Dandridge-Smith
The Water Collaborative
Alai Reyes-Santos
Alaí Community Consulting
Diana Piña Yitbarek
NC Department of Environmental Quality
Kimbaya Carriere
Nuxalk First Nation
Danielle Rivera
University of California Berkeley
Thea Louis
MSC Industrial Supply Co.
Lucero Sanchez
San Diego Coastkeeper
Roland Jones
CIS
Heather Tanana
University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Ashwin Dhanasekar
Brown and Caldwell
Lenise Marrero
Brown and Caldwell
Angela Mooney D’Arcy
Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples
Jazmin Ricks
University of Pennsylvania
Dezaraye Bagalayos
Allensworth Progressive Association
Ruthie Redmond
UC Berkeley
Marc Oliver Quijano
Jacobs
Nieves Vazquez
Water For People
Tanasia Swift
Billion Oyster Project
Chauncey Foster
we.grow.eco
Carolan Sonderegger
For Love of Water
Harshini Ratnayaka
Save the Dunes
Esteban Ortiz
The Gorge Association of Aspirations/La Asociacion de Aspiraciones del Gorge
Shandin Pete
University of British Columbia
Talia London
The Common Acre
Tony Bridges
The Maryland General Assembly
Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George
Ferris Institute
André Sanchez
California Wilderness Coalition
Sandi Matsumoto
The Nature Conservancy
Fernando Ramirez
Bridges 2023 International
Val Schull
GreenLatinos
Charles Cassagnol
Western Ecology, LLC
Susana De Anda
Community Water Center
Priscila Alves
University of Maryland
Nathaniel I Kollie
University of California Santa Cruz
Jaiden Willeto
Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop
Nadine Robertson
Veolia North America
Tanner Yess
Groundwork USA
Emily Warren Armitano
Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Mahtaab Bagherzadeh
NWF/Clean Water for All
Portia Shepherd
Blackbelt Women Rising
Beth Roach
Sierra Club
Joaquin Esquivel
California State Water Resources Control Board
Allen Townsend
World Wildlife Fund
Cindy Donis
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice
Nasim Pica
WSP in the U.S.
Alyssa Senturk
California Water Data Consortium
Andrian Lee
BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC
Cate Mingoya-LaFortune
Groundwork USA
Billie Li
Wright-Pierce
Frank Ruiz
The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz
Damian Shapes Padilla
Spirit Rock Consulting
Michael Méndez
UC Irvine
Alastair Bitsóí
Near the Water Media & Communications Group
Moisés Moreno-Rivera
Trust for Public Land
Chakena Sims
NRDC
Cate Caldwell
Illinois Environmental Council
Nicole Nelson
Equity Legal Services, Inc
Rene Henery
Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno
John Echohawk
Native American Rights Fund
Ngodoo Atume
UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
Oday Salim
University of Michigan Law School
Jahan Taganova
City and County of Denver
Sapna Mulki
Environmental Policy Innovation Center
Sonali Abraham
Pacific Institute
Elizabeth Ruiz
CA State Water Resources Control Board
Sanjiv Sinha
Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.
Rachele Lopez
Justice Outside
Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes
GreenLatinos
Nicole Chavas
Greenprint Partners
Arsum Pathak
National Wildlife Federation
Rhysea Agrawal
The Xylom
Emma Robbins
The Chapter House
Xochitl Bervera
Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters
Julia Fay Bernal
Pueblo Action Alliance
Jasmine Walker
Ohio Environmental Council
Chriscilia Cox
SUMA Consulting LLC
Adriana Renteria
State Water Board
Sri Vedachalam
Cisolutions
Marccus Hendricks
University of Maryland - College Park
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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.
Read the joint statement by Color of Water members on the importance of equity in the water world.
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AOC holds jar of brown water from next to Meta’s Georgia data center at EPA hearing: Residents ‘rely on bottled water to drink and prepare meals’ – AOL
Neighbors of a massive Meta data center can’t drink their water, and their water bills are set to skyrocket. [from AOL.com]

Environmental justice raised over data centers targeting rural NM – KRWG Public Media
GreenLatinos believes states should approach regulation of artificial intelligence data centers from a mindset of community protection and adopt a high bar for regulation. [from

'Bringing these worlds together' – Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
[from Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability]