Color Of Water

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

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Benu Amun Ra

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

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Walt Walker

TYLin

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Victor Galvan

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

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Andrea León-Grossmann

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Afia Zakiya

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

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Aria Harris

TYLin

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Paula Buchanan

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

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Talia London

The Common Acre

Esteban Ortiz

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

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Roland Jones

CIS

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Olga Cano

HUD

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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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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