Color Of Water
Elevating Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and other voices of color to change the narrative around water.
Felice Green
Milwaukee Water Commons
Carolan Sonderegger
For Love of Water
Talia London
The Common Acre
Sandi Matsumoto
The Nature Conservancy
Jahan Taganova
City and County of Denver
Chriscilia Cox
SUMA Consulting LLC
Val Schull
GreenLatinos
Cathie Chavez-Morris
Equidad Group
Huda Alkaff
Wisconsin Green Muslims
Daniela Sherrill
ASU / AZ Water for All
Diana Piña Yitbarek
NC Department of Environmental Quality
Nasim Pica
WSP in the U.S.
Paula Buchanan
National Center for Domestic Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia Climate School
Alastair Bitsóí
Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President
Arsum Pathak
National Wildlife Federation
Cate Mingoya-LaFortune
Groundwork USA
Elizabeth Ruiz
CA State Water Resources Control Board
Ruthie Redmond
UC Berkeley
Ashwin Dhanasekar
Brown and Caldwell
Parsa Saffarinia
University of California, Davis
Veronica Garibay
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Gabe Vasquez
US Congress
Kabir Thatte
The Vessel Collective
Harshini Ratnayaka
Save the Dunes
Dira Johanif
Charles River Climate Compact
Shama Perveen
Ceres
Portia Shepherd
Blackbelt Women Rising
Priscila Alves
University of Maryland
Analise Rivero
California Trout
Afia Zakiya
Independent Africana Studies and EJ scholar-activist, currently Executive Director of Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation
Carlos Moran
Northeast Trees
Rob Larson
Grand Valley State University
Alondra Hernandez-Bose
WEAT
Andrian Lee
BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC
Rhea Drozdenko
Connecticut River Conservancy
Keiko Wilkins
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Pablo Ortiz
Union of Concerned Scientists
Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Bridget Ray
Washington State Department of Commerce
Heather Tanana
University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Thea Louis
MSC Industrial Supply Co.
Ayako Tischler
Xylem
Quentin Stubbs
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Lenise Marrero
Brown and Caldwell
Pallavi Bharadwaj
SEG
Tanasia Swift
Billion Oyster Project
Jo Banner
The Descendants Project
Jessica Thrasher
Colorado State University
Alex Ortiz
Austin Water and Wastewater Commission
Maritza Mendoza
Empower DC
Carlos Calderon
West Michigan Environmental Action Council
Chauncey Foster
we.grow.eco
Beth Roach
Sierra Club
Tiffany Sevilla
Greenprint Partners
Fernando Ramirez
Bridges 2023 International
Alyssa Senturk
California Water Data Consortium
Temiloluwa Akinyemi
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Ani Jayakaran
Washington State University
Victor Galvan
Denver Mayor's Office for Climate Action, Sustainability and Resilience
Danielle Rivera
University of California Berkeley
Oluwole (OJ) McFoy
Houston Public Works
Julian Gonzalez
Earthjustice
Patricia Lindsay-Harvey
Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority
Crystal Davis
National Parks Conservation Association
Kimbaya Carriere
Nuxalk First Nation
Jahan Taganova
City and County of Denver
Jaiden Willeto
Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop
Bre’Shaun Reddick
Alliance for the Great Lakes
Benu Amun Ra
S.A.C.R.Ed Eco-Center
Vinicius Taguchi
North Carolina State University
Daniel Cordalis
Native American Rights Fund
Marccus Hendricks
University of Maryland - College Park
Cate Caldwell
Illinois Environmental Council
Marc Oliver Quijano
Jacobs
Damian Shapes Padilla
Spirit Rock Consulting
Walt Walker
TYLin
Cheyanne Harris
Brown and Caldwell
Arohi Sharma
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš
Azul
Angela Mooney D’Arcy
Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples
Gia Moreno
Hood Community Council
Monica Driggers
Massachusetts Rivers Alliance
Roland Jones
CIS
Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
Olga Morales Pate
Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated
Khalid Osman
Stanford University
Emma Robbins
The Chapter House
Dezaraye Bagalayos
Allensworth Progressive Association
Nureen Faiza Anisha
Oregon State University
Maria Elena Kennedy
Kennedy Communications, Inc
Jacob Bernal
American Rivers
Sonali Abraham
Pacific Institute
Ed Marin
Louisville Water
Rachele Lopez
Justice Outside
Susana De Anda
Community Water Center
Joaquin Esquivel
California State Water Resources Control Board
Sidney Opiyo
University of California, Santa Cruz
Jazmin Ricks
University of Pennsylvania
Vicky Espinoza
CaliWaterAg
Shandin Pete
University of British Columbia
Nieves Vazquez
Water For People
Oday Salim
University of Michigan Law School
Lucero Sanchez
San Diego Coastkeeper
Cyatharine Alias
Center for Neighborhood Technology
Ciara Horne
SBG Digital
Brenda Coley
Milwaukee Water Commons
Sanjiv Sinha
Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.
Nataly Escobedo Garcia
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Nadine Robertson
Veolia North America
Rhysea Agrawal
The Xylom
Esteban Ortiz
The Gorge Association of Aspirations/La Asociacion de Aspiraciones del Gorge
Ngodoo Atume
UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
Adriana Renteria
State Water Board
Charles Cassagnol
Western Ecology, LLC
Nusrat Molla
Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University
Aria Harris
TYLin
Ean Tafoya
GreenLatinos
Silvia R. Gonzalez
UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute
Pedro Hernandez
GreenLatinos
Tanner Yess
Groundwork USA
Tony Bridges
The Maryland General Assembly
Allen Townsend
World Wildlife Fund
Cindy Donis
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice
Rene Henery
Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno
Crystal Sanders-Alvarado
Seaworthy
Kedar Dabhadkar
Lam Research
Billie Li
Wright-Pierce
Cheyenne Holliday
Verde
Mallika Nocco
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Frank Ruiz
The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz
Ehab Meselhe
Tulane University
Michael Méndez
UC Irvine
Jasmine Walker
Ohio Environmental Council
Nicole Chavas
Greenprint Partners
Alyssa Senturk
California Water Data Consortium
Angela M Chalk
Healthy Community Resources Services
Nikki Tulley
University of Arizona
Bleu Adams
IndigeHub
Angela Guyadeen
NRDC
Mahtaab Bagherzadeh
NWF/Clean Water for All
Sri Vedachalam
Cisolutions
John Echohawk
Native American Rights Fund
Chakena Sims
NRDC
Briana Muñoz
Pacific Coast Carbon LLC
Newsha Ajami
Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
Olga Cano
HUD
Sapna Mulki
Environmental Policy Innovation Center
Maisah Khan
Regenerative Agriculture Foundation
Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz
Greenroots Institute
Jessica Dandridge-Smith
The Water Collaborative
Andrea León-Grossmann
Vote Solar
Joy Banner
The Descendants Project
Martin Griffin
Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District
Nahal G. Ipakchi
BluePoint Planning
Direlle Calica
Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)
José M. Rodríguez-Flores
California State University, Monterey Bay
Chakena Sims
NRDC
Julia Fay Bernal
Pueblo Action Alliance
Emily Warren Armitano
Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Usman Mahmood
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes
GreenLatinos
Sydney Garcia
The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George
Ferris Institute
Sarah Traore
The University of Texas at Austin
Alai Reyes-Santos
University of Oregon
Xochitl Bervera
Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters
Pita Juarez
Comms Consultant
Breanna Gonzalez
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Nicole Nelson
Equity Legal Services, Inc
André Sanchez
California Wilderness Coalition
Jeremy Orr
Earthjustice
Charming Evelyn
OceanWell Water
Nathaniel I Kollie
University of California Santa Cruz
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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.
Read the joint statement by Color of Water members on the importance of equity in the water world.
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Environmental justice raised over data centers targeting rural NM – KRWG Public Media
GreenLatinos believes states should approach regulation of artificial intelligence data centers from a mindset of community protection and adopt a high bar for regulation. [from

Colorado River Water Access Calls for this Sensible Solution | Opinion – Arizona Institute for Resilience
The old ways of managing the shrinking Colorado River aren't helping Arizona. But there is a way all of the compact states could find a
