Color Of Water

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

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Benu Amun Ra

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

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Paula Buchanan

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

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Talia London

The Common Acre

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Roland Jones

CIS

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Andrea León-Grossmann

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Olga Cano

HUD

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Victor Galvan

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

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Aria Harris

TYLin

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Walt Walker

TYLin

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Esteban Ortiz

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

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Afia Zakiya

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

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

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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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