Color Of Water

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

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Roland Jones

CIS

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Hayat Rasul

LA County

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Esteban Ortiz

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

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Talia London

The Common Acre

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Benu Amun Ra

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

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Walt Walker

TYLin

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Olga Cano

HUD

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Afia Zakiya

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

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Victor Galvan

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

Aria Harris

TYLin

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Paula Buchanan

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

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

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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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