Color Of Water

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

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Afia Zakiya

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

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Victor Galvan

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

Benu Amun Ra

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

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Paula Buchanan

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

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Talia London

The Common Acre

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Aria Harris

TYLin

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Walt Walker

TYLin

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Andrea León-Grossmann

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Esteban Ortiz

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

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Roland Jones

CIS

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Olga Cano

HUD

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

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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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