Color Of Water

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

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Walt Walker

TYLin

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Esteban Ortiz

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

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Paula Buchanan

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

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Afia Zakiya

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

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Andrea León-Grossmann

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Victor Galvan

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

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Talia London

The Common Acre

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Olga Cano

HUD

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Aria Harris

TYLin

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Roland Jones

CIS

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Benu Amun Ra

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

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

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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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