Color Of Water

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

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Talia London

The Common Acre

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Olga Cano

HUD

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Roland Jones

CIS

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Aria Harris

TYLin

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Guadalupe F

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Walt Walker

TYLin

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Esteban Ortiz

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

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Benu Amun Ra

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

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Afia Zakiya

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

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Victor Galvan

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

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Paula Buchanan

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

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

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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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