Color Of Water

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

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Olga Cano

HUD

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Victor Galvan

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

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Benu Amun Ra

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

Afia Zakiya

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

Talia London

The Common Acre

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Walt Walker

TYLin

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Roland Jones

CIS

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Aria Harris

TYLin

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Paula Buchanan

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

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Esteban Ortiz

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

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Andrea León-Grossmann

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

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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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