Color Of Water

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

Daniela Sherrill

ASU / AZ Water for All

Carolan Sonderegger

For Love of Water

Veronica Garibay

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Nusrat Molla

Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University

Adriana Renteria

State Water Board

Kedar Dabhadkar

Lam Research

Joy Banner

The Descendants Project

Roland Jones

CIS

Bleu Adams

IndigeHub

Nicole Nelson

Equity Legal Services, Inc

Angela Guyadeen

NRDC

Priscila Alves

University of Maryland

Bridget Ray

Washington State Department of Commerce

Crystal Sanders-Alvarado

Seaworthy

Cindy Donis

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice

Sonali Abraham

Pacific Institute

Mallika Nocco

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Sarah Traore

The University of Texas at Austin

Jessica Dandridge-Smith

The Water Collaborative

Jacob Bernal

American Rivers

Tiffany Sevilla

Greenprint Partners

Allen Townsend

World Wildlife Fund

Brenda Coley

Milwaukee Water Commons

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Oday Salim

University of Michigan Law School

Carlos Calderon

West Michigan Environmental Action Council

Wendy “Poppy” Ferris-George

Ferris Institute

Gabe Vasquez

US Congress

Rene Henery

Trout Unlimited/ University of Nevada, Reno

Shandin Pete

University of British Columbia

Jo Banner

The Descendants Project

Jasmine Walker

IMPACT Community Action

Paula Buchanan

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

Sri Vedachalam

Cisolutions

Ani Jayakaran

Washington State University

Susana De Anda

Community Water Center

Nikki Tulley

University of Arizona

Newsha Ajami

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Chakena Sims

NRDC

Sydney Garcia

The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Olga Morales Pate

Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Alondra Hernandez-Bose

WEAT

Danielle Rivera

University of California Berkeley

Alex Ortiz

Austin Water and Wastewater Commission

Daniel Cordalis

Native American Rights Fund

Monica Driggers

Massachusetts Rivers Alliance

Dira Johanif

Charles River Climate Compact

Mariana Del Valle Prieto Cervantes

GreenLatinos

Rhysea Agrawal

The Xylom

Alastair Bitsóí

Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President

Benu Amun Ra

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

Carlos Moran

Northeast Trees

Ean Tafoya

GreenLatinos

Cyatharine Alias

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Ngodoo Atume

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources

Vicky Espinoza

CaliWaterAg

Alai Reyes-Santos

University of Oregon

Heather Tanana

University of California, Irvine

Nataly Escobedo Garcia

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

Angela M Chalk

Healthy Community Resources Services

Damian Shapes Padilla

Spirit Rock Consulting

André Sanchez

California Wilderness Coalition

Harshini Ratnayaka

Save the Dunes

Beth Roach

Sierra Club

Patricia Lindsay-Harvey

Willingboro Municipal Utilities Authority

Vinicius Taguchi

North Carolina State University

Rachele Lopez

Justice Outside

Afia Zakiya

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

Ashwin Dhanasekar

Brown and Caldwell

Jose Luis Ortiz y Muniz

Greenroots Institute

Billie Li

Wright-Pierce

Kabir Thatte

The Vessel Collective

Emily Warren Armitano

Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Victor Galvan

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

Chriscilia Cox

SUMA Consulting LLC

Cathie Chavez-Morris

Equidad Group

Emma Robbins

The Chapter House

Jessica Thrasher

Colorado State University

Marce Gutiérrez-Graudiņš

Azul

Sandi Matsumoto

The Nature Conservancy

Ruthie Redmond

UC Berkeley

Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Groundwork USA

Cheyenne Holliday

Verde

Tanasia Swift

Billion Oyster Project

Angela Mooney D’Arcy

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Maisah Khan

Regenerative Agriculture Foundation

maritza mendoza

Empower DC

Andrea León-Grossmann

Vote Solar

Angel Santiago Fernandez-Bou

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Arsum Pathak

National Wildlife Federation

Charming Evelyn

OceanWell Water

Sidney Opiyo

University of California, Santa Cruz

Silvia R. Gonzalez

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Pedro Hernandez

GreenLatinos

Keiko Wilkins

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Julia Fay Bernal

Pueblo Action Alliance

Charles Cassagnol

Western Ecology, LLC

Xochitl Bervera

Near Futures Projects/Water is Life Oysters

Ciara Horne

SBG Digital

Khalid Osman

Stanford University

Huda Alkaff

Wisconsin Green Muslims

Pablo Ortiz

Union of Concerned Scientists

Martin Griffin

Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Usman Mahmood

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Breanna Gonzalez

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Talia London

The Common Acre

Fernando Ramirez

Bridges 2023 International

Bre’Shaun Reddick

Alliance for the Great Lakes

Esteban Ortiz

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

Quentin Stubbs

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Jeremy Orr

Earthjustice

Tanner Yess

Groundwork USA

Pallavi Bharadwaj

SEG

Tony Bridges

The Maryland General Assembly

Frank Ruiz

The Office of U.S. Representative Raul Ruiz

Nicole Chavas

Greenprint Partners

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud

Bayou City Waterkeeper

Elizabeth Ruiz

CA State Water Resources Control Board

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Lenise Marrero

Brown and Caldwell

Mahtaab Bagherzadeh

NWF/Clean Water for All

Chauncey Foster

we.grow.eco

Oluwole (OJ) McFoy

Houston Public Works

Ed Marin

Louisville Water

Julian Gonzalez

Earthjustice

Jaiden Willeto

Northern Arizona University / K'é Infoshop

Crystal Davis

National Parks Conservation Association

Val Schull

GreenLatinos

Kimbaya Carriere

Nuxalk First Nation

Cheyanne Harris

Brown and Caldwell

Gia Moreno

Hood Community Council

Joaquin Esquivel

California State Water Resources Control Board

Thea Louis

MSC Industrial Supply Co.

Walt Walker

TYLin

Ehab Meselhe

Tulane University

Portia Shepherd

www.blackbeltwomenrising.org

Cate Caldwell

Illinois Environmental Council

Analise Rivero

California Trout

Sanjiv Sinha

Corvias Infrastructure Solutions, LLC.

Nadine Robertson

Veolia North America

Pita Juarez

Comms Consultant

Marccus Hendricks

University of Maryland - College Park

Diana Piña Yitbarek

NC Department of Environmental Quality

Nathaniel I Kollie

University of California Santa Cruz

Rob Larson

Grand Valley State University

Ayako Tischler

Xylem

Nahal G. Ipakchi

BluePoint Planning

Jazmin Ricks

University of Pennsylvania

Briana Muñoz

Pacific Coast Carbon LLC

José M. Rodríguez-Flores

California State University, Monterey Bay

Lucero Sanchez

San Diego Coastkeeper

Arohi Sharma

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Temiloluwa Akinyemi

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Aria Harris

TYLin

Andrian Lee

BCM Environmental and Land Law, PLLC

Alyssa Senturk

California Water Data Consortium

Nureen Faiza Anisha

Oregon State University

Dezaraye Bagalayos

Allensworth Progressive Association

Maria Elena Kennedy

Kennedy Communications, Inc

Michael Méndez

UC Irvine

Olga Cano

HUD

Shama Perveen

CERES

Parsa Saffarinia

University of California, Davis

Marc Oliver Quijano

Jacobs

John Echohawk

Native American Rights Fund

Sapna Mulki

Environmental Policy Innovation Center

Nasim Pica

WSP in the U.S.

Felice Green

Milwaukee Water Commons

Jahan Taganova

City and County of Denver

Rhea Drozdenko

Connecticut River Conservancy

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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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