Color Of Water

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

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Aria Harris

TYLin

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Benu Amun Ra

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

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Talia London

The Common Acre

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Olga Cano

HUD

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Roland Jones

CIS

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Walt Walker

TYLin

Victor Galvan

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

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Afia Zakiya

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

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Esteban Ortiz

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

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Paula Buchanan

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

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

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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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