Color Of Water

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

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Walt Walker

TYLin

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Aria Harris

TYLin

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Victor Galvan

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

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Talia London

The Common Acre

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Esteban Ortiz

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

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Benu Amun Ra

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

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Roland Jones

CIS

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Afia Zakiya

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

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Olga Cano

HUD

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Paula Buchanan

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

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

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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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