Color Of Water

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

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Paula Buchanan

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

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Walt Walker

TYLin

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Talia London

The Common Acre

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Victor Galvan

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

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Roland Jones

CIS

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Benu Amun Ra

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

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Aria Harris

TYLin

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Olga Cano

HUD

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Afia Zakiya

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

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Esteban Ortiz

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

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

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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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