Color Of Water

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

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Benu Amun Ra

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

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Afia Zakiya

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

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Victor Galvan

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

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Talia London

The Common Acre

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Walt Walker

TYLin

Aria Harris

TYLin

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Roland Jones

CIS

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Andrea León-Grossmann

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Olga Cano

HUD

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Esteban Ortiz

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

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Paula Buchanan

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

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

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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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