Color Of Water

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

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Talia London

The Common Acre

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Walt Walker

TYLin

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Roland Jones

CIS

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Olga Cano

HUD

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Paula Buchanan

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

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Aria Harris

TYLin

Victor Galvan

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

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Esteban Ortiz

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

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Afia Zakiya

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

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Benu Amun Ra

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

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Andrea León-Grossmann

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

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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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