Color Of Water

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

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Aria Harris

TYLin

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Victor Galvan

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

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Paula Buchanan

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

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Benu Amun Ra

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

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Walt Walker

TYLin

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Olga Cano

HUD

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Roland Jones

CIS

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Afia Zakiya

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

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Talia London

The Common Acre

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Esteban Ortiz

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

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

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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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