Color Of Water

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

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Aria Harris

TYLin

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Victor Galvan

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

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Afia Zakiya

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

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Talia London

The Common Acre

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Andrea León-Grossmann

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Olga Cano

HUD

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Roland Jones

CIS

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Paula Buchanan

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

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Walt Walker

TYLin

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Esteban Ortiz

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

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Benu Amun Ra

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

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

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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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