Color Of Water

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

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Aria Harris

TYLin

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Roland Jones

CIS

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Benu Amun Ra

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

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Andrea León-Grossmann

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Olga Cano

HUD

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Talia London

The Common Acre

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Esteban Ortiz

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

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Afia Zakiya

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

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Victor Galvan

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

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Walt Walker

TYLin

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Paula Buchanan

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

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

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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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