Color Of Water

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

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Walt Walker

TYLin

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Talia London

The Common Acre

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Aria Harris

TYLin

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Esteban Ortiz

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

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Afia Zakiya

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

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Victor Galvan

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

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Olga Cano

HUD

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Roland Jones

CIS

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Benu Amun Ra

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

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Paula Buchanan

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

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Andrea León-Grossmann

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

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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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