Color Of Water

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

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Walt Walker

TYLin

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Roland Jones

CIS

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Andrea León-Grossmann

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Talia London

The Common Acre

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Paula Buchanan

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

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Afia Zakiya

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

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Victor Galvan

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

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Benu Amun Ra

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

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Aria Harris

TYLin

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Olga Cano

HUD

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Esteban Ortiz

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

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

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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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