Color Of Water

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

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Victor Galvan

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

Paula Buchanan

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

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Walt Walker

TYLin

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Afia Zakiya

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

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Roland Jones

CIS

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Olga Cano

HUD

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Esteban Ortiz

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

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Talia London

The Common Acre

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Aria Harris

TYLin

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Benu Amun Ra

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

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

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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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