Color Of Water

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

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Esteban Ortiz

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

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Aria Harris

TYLin

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Victor Galvan

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

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Olga Cano

HUD

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Benu Amun Ra

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

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Walt Walker

TYLin

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Roland Jones

CIS

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Talia London

The Common Acre

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Paula Buchanan

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

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Afia Zakiya

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

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

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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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