Color Of Water

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

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Aria Harris

TYLin

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Talia London

The Common Acre

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Esteban Ortiz

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

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Olga Cano

HUD

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Roland Jones

CIS

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Benu Amun Ra

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

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Paula Buchanan

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

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Victor Galvan

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

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Walt Walker

TYLin

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Afia Zakiya

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

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

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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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