Color Of Water
Elevating Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and other voices of color to change the narrative around water.
Bridget Ray
Washington State Department of Commerce
Alyssa Senturk
California Water Data Consortium
José M. Rodríguez-Flores
California State University, Monterey Bay
Nikki Tulley
University of Arizona
Pita Juarez
Comms Consultant
Victor Galvan
Denver Mayor's Office for Climate Action, Sustainability and Resilience
Oluwole (OJ) McFoy
Houston Public Works
Sandi Matsumoto
The Nature Conservancy
Julia Fay Bernal
Pueblo Action Alliance
Esteban Ortiz
The Gorge Association of Aspirations/La Asociacion de Aspiraciones del Gorge
Angela M Chalk
Healthy Community Resources Services
Thea Louis
MSC Industrial Supply Co.
Nathaniel I Kollie
University of California Santa Cruz
Tanasia Swift
Billion Oyster Project
Jacob Bernal
American Rivers
Sarah Traore
The University of Texas at Austin
Temiloluwa Akinyemi
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Kimbaya Carriere
Nuxalk First Nation
Sidney Opiyo
University of California, Santa Cruz
Khalid Osman
Stanford University
Vinicius Taguchi
North Carolina State University
Sonali Abraham
Pacific Institute
Cate Caldwell
Illinois Environmental Council
Sydney Garcia
The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Silvia R. Gonzalez
UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute
Sri Vedachalam
Cisolutions
Emma Robbins
The Chapter House
Julian Gonzalez
Earthjustice
Jessica Thrasher
Colorado State University
Fernando Ramirez
Bridges 2023 International
Tiffany Sevilla
Greenprint Partners
Alondra Hernandez-Bose
WEAT
Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George
Ferris Institute
Pedro Hernandez
GreenLatinos
Andrea León-Grossmann
Vote Solar
Crystal Sanders-Alvarado
Seaworthy
Afia Zakiya
Independent Africana Studies and EJ scholar-activist, currently Executive Director of Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation
Nicole Chavas
Greenprint Partners
Susana De Anda
Community Water Center
Maria Elena Kennedy
Kennedy Communications, Inc
Beth Roach
Sierra Club
Carlos Calderon
West Michigan Environmental Action Council
Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
Michael Méndez
UC Irvine
Emily Warren Armitano
Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Benu Amun Ra
S.A.C.R.Ed Eco-Center
John Echohawk
Native American Rights Fund
Ciara Horne
SBG Digital
Brenda Coley
Milwaukee Water Commons
Talia London
The Common Acre
Felice Green
Milwaukee Water Commons
Damian Shapes Padilla
Spirit Rock Consulting
Chakena Sims
NRDC
Crystal Davis
National Parks Conservation Association
Kabir Thatte
The Vessel Collective
Sanjiv Sinha
Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.
Billie Li
Wright-Pierce
Tanner Yess
Groundwork USA
Arohi Sharma
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz
Greenroots Institute
Ruthie Redmond
UC Berkeley
Jahan Taganova
City and County of Denver
Huda Alkaff
Wisconsin Green Muslims
Lenise Marrero
Brown and Caldwell
Chakena Sims
NRDC
Joy Banner
The Descendants Project
Jasmine Walker
Ohio Environmental Council
Bre’Shaun Reddick
Alliance for the Great Lakes
Cheyenne Holliday
Verde
Pablo Ortiz
Union of Concerned Scientists
Gabe Vasquez
US Congress
Walt Walker
TYLin
Quentin Stubbs
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Olga Cano
HUD
Portia Shepherd
Blackbelt Women Rising
Harshini Ratnayaka
Save the Dunes
Rhea Drozdenko
Connecticut River Conservancy
Parsa Saffarinia
University of California, Davis
Elizabeth Ruiz
CA State Water Resources Control Board
Kedar Dabhadkar
Lam Research
Maisah Khan
Regenerative Agriculture Foundation
Veronica Garibay
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Tony Bridges
The Maryland General Assembly
Olga Morales Pate
Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated
Keiko Wilkins
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Roland Jones
CIS
Direlle Calica
Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)
Lucero Sanchez
San Diego Coastkeeper
Alastair Bitsóí
Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President
Usman Mahmood
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Marc Oliver Quijano
Jacobs
Daniel Cordalis
Native American Rights Fund
Jahan Taganova
City and County of Denver
André Sanchez
California Wilderness Coalition
Gia Moreno
Hood Community Council
Breanna Gonzalez
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Cate Mingoya-LaFortune
Groundwork USA
Vicky Espinoza
CaliWaterAg
Chriscilia Cox
SUMA Consulting LLC
Briana Muñoz
Pacific Coast Carbon LLC
Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes
GreenLatinos
Daniela Sherrill
ASU / AZ Water for All
Heather Tanana
University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Jo Banner
The Descendants Project
Patricia Lindsay-Harvey
Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority
Cindy Donis
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice
Arsum Pathak
National Wildlife Federation
Newsha Ajami
Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
Marccus Hendricks
University of Maryland - College Park
Nahal G. Ipakchi
BluePoint Planning
Diana Piña Yitbarek
NC Department of Environmental Quality
Nureen Faiza Anisha
Oregon State University
Danielle Rivera
University of California Berkeley
Nadine Robertson
Veolia North America
Val Schull
GreenLatinos
Alex Ortiz
Austin Water and Wastewater Commission
Dezaraye Bagalayos
Allensworth Progressive Association
Jeremy Orr
Earthjustice
Allen Townsend
World Wildlife Fund
Ani Jayakaran
Washington State University
Jazmin Ricks
University of Pennsylvania
Ayako Tischler
Xylem
Mallika Nocco
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Cyatharine Alias
Center for Neighborhood Technology
Shandin Pete
University of British Columbia
Joaquin Esquivel
California State Water Resources Control Board
Rachele Lopez
Justice Outside
Rhysea Agrawal
The Xylom
Ashwin Dhanasekar
Brown and Caldwell
Angela Guyadeen
NRDC
Oday Salim
University of Michigan Law School
Nieves Vazquez
Water For People
Andrian Lee
BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC
Analise Rivero
California Trout
Bleu Adams
IndigeHub
Martin Griffin
Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District
Monica Driggers
Massachusetts Rivers Alliance
Adriana Renteria
State Water Board
Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš
Azul
Paula Buchanan
National Center for Domestic Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia Climate School
Nusrat Molla
Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University
Cathie Chavez-Morris
Equidad Group
Carlos Moran
Northeast Trees
Shama Perveen
Ceres
Jaiden Willeto
Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop
Alyssa Senturk
California Water Data Consortium
Angela Mooney D’Arcy
Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples
Pallavi Bharadwaj
SEG
Frank Ruiz
The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz
Sapna Mulki
Environmental Policy Innovation Center
Cheyanne Harris
Brown and Caldwell
Ed Marin
Louisville Water
Xochitl Bervera
Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters
Nataly Escobedo Garcia
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Maritza Mendoza
Empower DC
Nicole Nelson
Equity Legal Services, Inc
Rob Larson
Grand Valley State University
Dira Johanif
Charles River Climate Compact
Ngodoo Atume
UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
Charles Cassagnol
Western Ecology, LLC
Alai Reyes-Santos
University of Oregon
Mahtaab Bagherzadeh
NWF/Clean Water for All
Jessica Dandridge-Smith
The Water Collaborative
Nasim Pica
WSP in the U.S.
Chauncey Foster
we.grow.eco
Rene Henery
Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno
Ehab Meselhe
Tulane University
Charming Evelyn
OceanWell Water
Priscila Alves
University of Maryland
Ean Tafoya
GreenLatinos
Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Aria Harris
TYLin
Carolan Sonderegger
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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.
Read the joint statement by Color of Water members on the importance of equity in the water world.
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Environmental justice raised over data centers targeting rural NM – KRWG Public Media
GreenLatinos believes states should approach regulation of artificial intelligence data centers from a mindset of community protection and adopt a high bar for regulation. [from

Colorado River Water Access Calls for this Sensible Solution | Opinion – Arizona Institute for Resilience
The old ways of managing the shrinking Colorado River aren't helping Arizona. But there is a way all of the compact states could find a
