Color Of Water

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

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Olga Cano

HUD

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Afia Zakiya

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

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Benu Amun Ra

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

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Walt Walker

TYLin

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Paula Buchanan

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

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Aria Harris

TYLin

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Roland Jones

CIS

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Victor Galvan

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

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Talia London

The Common Acre

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Esteban Ortiz

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

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

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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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