Color Of Water

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

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Victor Galvan

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

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Talia London

The Common Acre

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Esteban Ortiz

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

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Olga Cano

HUD

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Chakena Sims

NRDC

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Aria Harris

TYLin

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Roland Jones

CIS

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Guadalupe F

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Walt Walker

TYLin

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Benu Amun Ra

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

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Afia Zakiya

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

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Paula Buchanan

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

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

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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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