Color Of Water

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

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Paula Buchanan

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

Benu Amun Ra

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

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Afia Zakiya

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

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Olga Cano

HUD

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Analise Rivero

California Trout

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Victor Galvan

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

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Esteban Ortiz

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

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Aria Harris

TYLin

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Talia London

The Common Acre

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Walt Walker

TYLin

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Roland Jones

CIS

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

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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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