Color Of Water

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

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Aria Harris

TYLin

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Esteban Ortiz

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

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Afia Zakiya

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

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Olga Cano

HUD

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Roland Jones

CIS

Victor Galvan

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

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Paula Buchanan

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

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Benu Amun Ra

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

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Guadalupe F

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Talia London

The Common Acre

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Walt Walker

TYLin

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

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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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