Color Of Water

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

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Victor Galvan

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

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Esteban Ortiz

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

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Walt Walker

TYLin

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Olga Cano

HUD

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Paula Buchanan

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

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Benu Amun Ra

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

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Talia London

The Common Acre

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Roland Jones

CIS

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Aria Harris

TYLin

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Afia Zakiya

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

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

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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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