Color Of Water

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

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Talia London

The Common Acre

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Paula Buchanan

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

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Esteban Ortiz

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

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Roland Jones

CIS

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Olga Cano

HUD

Walt Walker

TYLin

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Victor Galvan

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

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Benu Amun Ra

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

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Aria Harris

TYLin

Afia Zakiya

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

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

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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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