Color Of Water

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

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Guadalupe F

Bayou City Waterkeeper

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Olga Cano

HUD

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Roland Jones

CIS

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Benu Amun Ra

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

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Esteban Ortiz

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

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Talia London

The Common Acre

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Victor Galvan

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

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Walt Walker

TYLin

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Afia Zakiya

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

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Paula Buchanan

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

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Aria Harris

TYLin

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

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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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