Color Of Water
Elevating Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and other voices of color to change the narrative around water.
Alyssa Senturk
California Water Data Consortium
John Echohawk
Native American Rights Fund
Khalid Osman
Stanford University
Tony Bridges
The Maryland General Assembly
Parsa Saffarinia
University of California, Davis
Billie Li
Wright-Pierce
Brenda Coley
Milwaukee Water Commons
Nataly Escobedo Garcia
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Nikki Tulley
University of Arizona
Ashwin Dhanasekar
Brown and Caldwell
Oday Salim
University of Michigan Law School
Silvia R. Gonzalez
UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute
Vinicius Taguchi
North Carolina State University
Alastair Bitsóí
Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President
Daniel Cordalis
Native American Rights Fund
Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš
Azul
Jo Banner
The Descendants Project
Breanna Gonzalez
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Nicole Nelson
Equity Legal Services, Inc
Crystal Davis
National Parks Conservation Association
Alondra Hernandez-Bose
WEAT
Rhea Drozdenko
Connecticut River Conservancy
Lucero Sanchez
San Diego Coastkeeper
Talia London
The Common Acre
Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Usman Mahmood
Bayou City Waterkeeper
Angela Mooney D’Arcy
Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples
Andrian Lee
BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC
Quentin Stubbs
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Angela M Chalk
Healthy Community Resources Services
Maisah Khan
Regenerative Agriculture Foundation
Sanjiv Sinha
Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.
Nasim Pica
WSP in the U.S.
André Sanchez
California Wilderness Coalition
Cate Mingoya-LaFortune
Groundwork USA
Carolan Sonderegger
For Love of Water
Diana Piña Yitbarek
NC Department of Environmental Quality
Kedar Dabhadkar
Lam Research
Cindy Donis
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice
Alex Ortiz
Austin Water and Wastewater Commission
Kabir Thatte
The Vessel Collective
Emma Robbins
The Chapter House
Frank Ruiz
The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz
Cheyanne Harris
Brown and Caldwell
Jaiden Willeto
Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop
Fernando Ramirez
Bridges 2023 International
Ruthie Redmond
UC Berkeley
Crystal Sanders-Alvarado
Seaworthy
Jeremy Orr
Earthjustice
Bridget Ray
Washington State Department of Commerce
Nureen Faiza Anisha
Oregon State University
Rob Larson
Grand Valley State University
Adriana Renteria
State Water Board
Vicky Espinoza
CaliWaterAg
Nicole Chavas
Greenprint Partners
Ed Marin
Louisville Water
Beth Roach
Sierra Club
Elizabeth Ruiz
CA State Water Resources Control Board
Roland Jones
CIS
Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes
GreenLatinos
Kimbaya Carriere
Nuxalk First Nation
Julia Fay Bernal
Pueblo Action Alliance
Patricia Lindsay-Harvey
Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority
Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz
Greenroots Institute
Monica Driggers
Massachusetts Rivers Alliance
Damian Shapes Padilla
Spirit Rock Consulting
Portia Shepherd
www.blackbeltwomenrising.org
Nathaniel I Kollie
University of California Santa Cruz
Val Schull
GreenLatinos
Shandin Pete
University of British Columbia
Marc Oliver Quijano
Jacobs
Charles Cassagnol
Western Ecology, LLC
Heather Tanana
University of California, Irvine
Ehab Meselhe
Tulane University
Dira Johanif
Charles River Climate Compact
Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George
Ferris Institute
Carlos Calderon
West Michigan Environmental Action Council
Ayako Tischler
Xylem
Sidney Opiyo
University of California, Santa Cruz
Alai Reyes-Santos
University of Oregon
Charming Evelyn
OceanWell Water
Xochitl Bervera
Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters
Sandi Matsumoto
The Nature Conservancy
maritza mendoza
Empower DC
Priscila Alves
University of Maryland
Felice Green
Milwaukee Water Commons
Oluwole (OJ) McFoy
Houston Public Works
Olga Cano
HUD
Daniela Sherrill
ASU / AZ Water for All
Analise Rivero
California Trout
Huda Alkaff
Wisconsin Green Muslims
Mallika Nocco
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
Angela Guyadeen
NRDC
Julian Gonzalez
Earthjustice
Ngodoo Atume
UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
Nadine Robertson
Veolia North America
Sri Vedachalam
Cisolutions
Martin Griffin
Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District
Cate Caldwell
Illinois Environmental Council
Sapna Mulki
Environmental Policy Innovation Center
Aria Harris
TYLin
Alyssa Senturk
California Water Data Consortium
Thea Louis
MSC Industrial Supply Co.
Veronica Garibay
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability
Jessica Thrasher
Colorado State University
Chakena Sims
NRDC
maritza mendoza
Empower DC
Gia Moreno
Hood Community Council
Nusrat Molla
Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University
Jazmin Ricks
University of Pennsylvania
Mahtaab Bagherzadeh
NWF/Clean Water for All
Newsha Ajami
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Jacob Bernal
American Rivers
Harshini Ratnayaka
Save the Dunes
Cyatharine Alias
Center for Neighborhood Technology
Susana De Anda
Community Water Center
Rachele Lopez
Justice Outside
Allen Townsend
World Wildlife Fund
Dezaraye Bagalayos
Allensworth Progressive Association
Sonali Abraham
Pacific Institute
Michael Méndez
UC Irvine
Bre’Shaun Reddick
Alliance for the Great Lakes
Bleu Adams
IndigeHub
Jahan Taganova
City and County of Denver
Pablo Ortiz
Union of Concerned Scientists
Lenise Marrero
Brown and Caldwell
Esteban Ortiz
The Gorge Association of Aspirations/La Asociacion de Aspiraciones del Gorge
José M. Rodríguez-Flores
California State University, Monterey Bay
Sydney Garcia
The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Carlos Moran
Northeast Trees
Tanner Yess
Groundwork USA
Pallavi Bharadwaj
SEG
Benu Amun Ra
S.A.C.R.Ed Eco-Center
Jasmine Walker
IMPACT Community Action
Joy Banner
The Descendants Project
Ciara Horne
SBG Digital
Emily Warren Armitano
Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Paula Buchanan
National Center for Domestic Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia Climate School
Arohi Sharma
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Ani Jayakaran
Washington State University
Briana Muñoz
Pacific Coast Carbon LLC
Gabe Vasquez
US Congress
Rene Henery
Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno
Joaquin Esquivel
California State Water Resources Control Board
Pita Juarez
Comms Consultant
Andrea León-Grossmann
Vote Solar
Sarah Traore
The University of Texas at Austin
Arsum Pathak
National Wildlife Federation
Nahal G. Ipakchi
BluePoint Planning
Pedro Hernandez
GreenLatinos
Victor Galvan
Denver Mayor's Office for Climate Action, Sustainability and Resilience
Danielle Rivera
University of California Berkeley
Afia Zakiya
Independent Africana Studies and EJ scholar-activist, currently Executive Director of Africatown Heritage Preservation Foundation
Cathie Chavez-Morris
Equidad Group
Shama Perveen
CERES
Chauncey Foster
we.grow.eco
Maria Elena Kennedy
Kennedy Communications, Inc
Cheyenne Holliday
Verde
Keiko Wilkins
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Temiloluwa Akinyemi
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Olga Morales Pate
Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated
Marccus Hendricks
University of Maryland - College Park
Rhysea Agrawal
The Xylom
Walt Walker
TYLin
Jessica Dandridge-Smith
The Water Collaborative
Ean Tafoya
GreenLatinos
Tanasia Swift
Billion Oyster Project
Chriscilia Cox
SUMA Consulting LLC
Tiffany Sevilla
Greenprint Partners
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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.
Read the joint statement by Color of Water members on the importance of equity in the water world.
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VOICES: Protecting what we love in the age of AI – Planet Detroit
The director of Michigan Green Muslims offers a faith-based perspective on why Great Lakes communities are pushing back against data centers. [from Planet Detroit]

How more than 240 million gallons of sewage flowed into the Potomac River – NPR
NPR's Erika Ryan reports from the site of one of the nation's largest sewage spills ever — just outside of Washington, D.C. — in January.

Nearly half of L.A. County’s pavement may be unnecessary, new map finds – Los Angeles Times
Researchers have released the first parcel-level analysis to map all paved surfaces across L.A. County. In particular, large parking lots are ripe for change, they