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.


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