Color Of Water

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

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Aria Harris

TYLin

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Talia London

The Common Acre

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Paula Buchanan

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

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Esteban Ortiz

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

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Olga Cano

HUD

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Afia Zakiya

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

Benu Amun Ra

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

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Roland Jones

CIS

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Walt Walker

TYLin

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Andrea León-Grossmann

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Victor Galvan

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

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

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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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