Color Of Water

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

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Olga Cano

HUD

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Aria Harris

TYLin

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Esteban Ortiz

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

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Benu Amun Ra

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

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Afia Zakiya

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

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Talia London

The Common Acre

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Walt Walker

TYLin

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Paula Buchanan

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

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Victor Galvan

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

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Roland Jones

CIS

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

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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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