Color Of Water

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

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Walt Walker

TYLin

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Aria Harris

TYLin

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Portia Shepherd

Blackbelt Women Rising

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Paula Buchanan

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

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Talia London

The Common Acre

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

shama perveen

Ceres

Esteban Ortiz

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

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Afia Zakiya

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

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

Victor Galvan

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

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Jasmine Walker

IMPACT Community Action

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Benu Amun Ra

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

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Roland Jones

CIS

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Olga Cano

HUD

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

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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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