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

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Paula Buchanan

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

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Walt Walker

TYLin

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Afia Zakiya

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

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Roland Jones

CIS

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Olga Cano

HUD

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Victor Galvan

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

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Benu Amun Ra

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

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Aria Harris

TYLin

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Esteban Ortiz

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

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Talia London

The Common Acre

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

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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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