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.


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