Color Of Water

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

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Roland Jones

CIS

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Esteban Ortiz

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

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Paula Buchanan

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

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Benu Amun Ra

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

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Olga Cano

HUD

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Victor Galvan

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

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Aria Harris

TYLin

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Walt Walker

TYLin

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Talia London

The Common Acre

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Afia Zakiya

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

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

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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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