Color Of Water

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

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Victor Galvan

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

Afia Zakiya

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

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Esteban Ortiz

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

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Aria Harris

TYLin

Talia London

The Common Acre

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Benu Amun Ra

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

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Andrea León-Grossmann

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Roland Jones

CIS

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Paula Buchanan

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

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Walt Walker

TYLin

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Olga Cano

HUD

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

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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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