Color Of Water

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

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Newsha Ajami

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Paula Buchanan

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

Hayat Rasul

LA County

Benu Amun Ra

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

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Victor Galvan

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

Roland Jones

CIS

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Direlle Calica

Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ATNI)

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Shama Perveen

Ceres

Nieves Vazquez

Water For People

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Aria Harris

TYLin

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Maritza Mendoza

Empower DC

Guadalupe Fernandez

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Alai Reyes-Santos

Alaí Community Consulting

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Heather Tanana

University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Moisés Moreno-Rivera

Trust for Public Land

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Olga Cano

HUD

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Berhanu Sinshaw

University of California Merced

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Olga Morales

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Jasmine Walker

Ohio Environmental Council

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Walt Walker

TYLin

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Talia London

The Common Acre

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Afia Zakiya

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

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Andrea León-Grossmann

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Esteban Ortiz

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

Alastair Bitsóí

Near the Water Media & Communications Group

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

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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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