Color Of Water

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

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Paula Buchanan

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

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Aria Harris

TYLin

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Walt Walker

TYLin

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Victor Galvan

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

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Jasmine Walker

IMPACT Community Action

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Olga Cano

HUD

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Roland Jones

CIS

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Talia London

The Common Acre

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Benu Amun Ra

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

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Afia Zakiya

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

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Esteban Ortiz

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

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

shama perveen

Ceres

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

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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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