Color Of Water

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

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Afia Zakiya

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

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Talia London

The Common Acre

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Esteban Ortiz

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

Aria Harris

TYLin

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Walt Walker

TYLin

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Roland Jones

CIS

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Victor Galvan

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

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Andrea León-Grossmann

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Benu Amun Ra

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

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Olga Cano

HUD

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Paula Buchanan

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

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

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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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