Color Of Water

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

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Jasmine Walker

IMPACT Community Action

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Roland Jones

CIS

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Afia Zakiya

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

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Walt Walker

TYLin

Esteban Ortiz

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

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Olga Cano

HUD

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Benu Amun Ra

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

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Paula Buchanan

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

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

shama perveen

Ceres

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Victor Galvan

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

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Aria Harris

TYLin

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Talia London

The Common Acre

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

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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