Color Of Water

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

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Talia London

The Common Acre

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Andrea León-Grossmann

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Victor Galvan

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

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Esteban Ortiz

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

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Roland Jones

CIS

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Olga Cano

HUD

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Walt Walker

TYLin

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Afia Zakiya

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

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Paula Buchanan

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

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Aria Harris

TYLin

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Benu Amun Ra

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

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

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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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