Color Of Water

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

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Victor Galvan

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

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Esteban Ortiz

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

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Benu Amun Ra

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

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Aria Harris

TYLin

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Paula Buchanan

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

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Talia London

The Common Acre

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Andrea León-Grossmann

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Roland Jones

CIS

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Afia Zakiya

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

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Olga Cano

HUD

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Walt Walker

TYLin

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

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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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