Color Of Water

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

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Afia Zakiya

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

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Paula Buchanan

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

Victor Galvan

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

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Walt Walker

TYLin

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Olga Cano

HUD

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Analise Rivero

California Trout

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Aria Harris

TYLin

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Roland Jones

CIS

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Esteban Ortiz

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

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Talia London

The Common Acre

Guadalupe F

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Benu Amun Ra

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

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

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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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