Color Of Water

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

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Victor Galvan

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

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Talia London

The Common Acre

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Roland Jones

CIS

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Walt Walker

TYLin

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Paula Buchanan

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

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Olga Cano

HUD

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Aria Harris

TYLin

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Afia Zakiya

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

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Andrea León-Grossmann

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Benu Amun Ra

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

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Esteban Ortiz

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

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

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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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