Color Of Water

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

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Paula Buchanan

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

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Walt Walker

TYLin

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Benu Amun Ra

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

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Victor Galvan

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

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Afia Zakiya

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

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Olga Cano

HUD

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Esteban Ortiz

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

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Talia London

The Common Acre

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Aria Harris

TYLin

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Roland Jones

CIS

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

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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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