Color Of Water

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

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Paula Buchanan

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

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Walt Walker

TYLin

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Aria Harris

TYLin

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Benu Amun Ra

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

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Talia London

The Common Acre

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Esteban Ortiz

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

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Roland Jones

CIS

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Victor Galvan

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

Afia Zakiya

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

Olga Cano

HUD

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

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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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