Color Of Water

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

Benu Amun Ra

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

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Walt Walker

TYLin

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Paula Buchanan

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

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Victor Galvan

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

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Roland Jones

CIS

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Olga Cano

HUD

Esteban Ortiz

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

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Afia Zakiya

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

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Talia London

The Common Acre

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Aria Harris

TYLin

Chakena Sims

NRDC

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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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