Color Of Water

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

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Aria Harris

TYLin

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Walt Walker

TYLin

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Paula Buchanan

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

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Roland Jones

CIS

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Afia Zakiya

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

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Esteban Ortiz

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

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Andrea León-Grossmann

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Benu Amun Ra

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

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Talia London

The Common Acre

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Victor Galvan

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

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Olga Cano

HUD

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

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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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