Color Of Water

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

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Roland Jones

CIS

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Walt Walker

TYLin

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Afia Zakiya

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

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Talia London

The Common Acre

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Aria Harris

TYLin

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Esteban Ortiz

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

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Benu Amun Ra

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

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Victor Galvan

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

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Paula Buchanan

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

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Olga Cano

HUD

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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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