Color Of Water

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

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Afia Zakiya

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

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Aria Harris

TYLin

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Roland Jones

CIS

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Victor Galvan

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

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Olga Cano

HUD

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Paula Buchanan

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

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Talia London

The Common Acre

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Walt Walker

TYLin

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Chakena Sims

NRDC

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Esteban Ortiz

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

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Benu Amun Ra

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

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

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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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