Color Of Water

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

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Walt Walker

TYLin

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Esteban Ortiz

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

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Olga Cano

HUD

Aria Harris

TYLin

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Roland Jones

CIS

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Victor Galvan

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

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Talia London

The Common Acre

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Paula Buchanan

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

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Benu Amun Ra

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

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Afia Zakiya

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

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

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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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