Color Of Water

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

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Andrea León-Grossmann

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Benu Amun Ra

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

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Victor Galvan

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

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Paula Buchanan

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

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Aria Harris

TYLin

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Roland Jones

CIS

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Talia London

The Common Acre

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Esteban Ortiz

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

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Walt Walker

TYLin

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Olga Cano

HUD

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Afia Zakiya

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

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

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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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