Color Of Water

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

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Esteban Ortiz

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

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Paula Buchanan

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

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Aria Harris

TYLin

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Benu Amun Ra

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

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Victor Galvan

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

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Andrea León-Grossmann

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Afia Zakiya

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

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Roland Jones

CIS

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Talia London

The Common Acre

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Walt Walker

TYLin

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Olga Cano

HUD

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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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