Color Of Water

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

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Esteban Ortiz

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

Talia London

The Common Acre

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Victor Galvan

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

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Paula Buchanan

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

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Walt Walker

TYLin

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Afia Zakiya

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

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Olga Cano

HUD

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Aria Harris

TYLin

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Benu Amun Ra

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

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Roland Jones

CIS

trending topics

These are the top topics that reporters, decision makers, and partners are looking for experts to speak about.

Video Library

Watch water experts share their stories and perspectives with reporters, event audiences, podcast hosts, and more.

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.


Read the joint statement by Color of Water members on the importance of equity in the water world.

explore the Color of Water directory

experts across the country

Register to Join our Expert Directory

If you identify as a person of color with expertise in water (including lived experience or ancestral knowledge) or work in fields that intersect with water (like health, farming, housing, planning, etc.) please submit your information to us!

Are you a current member?

Update your color of water profile.

Can’t access your email?  Get in touch with us!

Are you a journalist?

Download the directory and opt-in to get pitches featuring Color of Water stories.

What are Color of Water members talking about?