Color Of Water

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

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Victor Galvan

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

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Andrea León-Grossmann

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Aria Harris

TYLin

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Walt Walker

TYLin

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Talia London

The Common Acre

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Olga Cano

HUD

Paula Buchanan

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

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Benu Amun Ra

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

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Roland Jones

CIS

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Afia Zakiya

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

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Esteban Ortiz

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

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

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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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