Color Of Water

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

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Esteban Ortiz

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

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Afia Zakiya

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

Portia Shepherd

www.blackbeltwomenrising.org

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Roland Jones

CIS

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Paula Buchanan

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

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Olga Cano

HUD

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Aria Harris

TYLin

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Talia London

The Common Acre

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Shama Perveen

CERES

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Angela Guyadeen

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Victor Galvan

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

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Jasmine Walker

IMPACT Community Action

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Walt Walker

TYLin

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Benu Amun Ra

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

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

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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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