Color Of Water

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

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Afia Zakiya

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

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Walt Walker

TYLin

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Chakena Sims

NRDC

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Paula Buchanan

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

Esteban Ortiz

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

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Victor Galvan

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

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Olga Cano

HUD

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Benu Amun Ra

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

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Roland Jones

CIS

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Aria Harris

TYLin

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Talia London

The Common Acre

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

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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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