Color Of Water

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

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Victor Galvan

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

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Walt Walker

TYLin

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Olga Cano

HUD

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Afia Zakiya

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

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Aria Harris

TYLin

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Talia London

The Common Acre

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Benu Amun Ra

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

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Roland Jones

CIS

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Esteban Ortiz

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

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Paula Buchanan

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

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

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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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