Color Of Water

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

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Victor Galvan

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

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Benu Amun Ra

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

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Paula Buchanan

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

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Talia London

The Common Acre

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Aria Harris

TYLin

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Walt Walker

TYLin

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Olga Cano

HUD

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Andrea León-Grossmann

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Roland Jones

CIS

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Esteban Ortiz

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

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Afia Zakiya

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

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

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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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